Rural Utilities Service

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The Rural Utilities Service is a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency that provides financing and support for infrastructure and utility services—such as electricity, water, and telecommunications—in rural communities.

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Label Occurrences
Rural Utilities Service canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf federal agency
government organization
abbreviation RUS
collaboratesWith electric cooperatives
municipal utilities
state and local governments
telecommunications providers
country United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfWork rural electrification
rural telecommunications
rural water and waste disposal
fundingSource federal appropriations
federal loan programs
goal to expand access to modern telecommunications services in rural communities
to expand access to reliable electricity in rural communities
to expand access to safe drinking water in rural communities
to improve quality of life in rural areas through modern utilities
hasMission to provide financing and support for infrastructure and utility services in rural communities
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
isPartOf USDA Rural Development mission area
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: United States federal government
languageOfWorkOrName English
legalBasis Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Rural Electrification Act of 1936
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity District of Columbia
oversees rural electric cooperatives that are borrowers
rural telephone cooperatives that are borrowers
parentAgency United States Department of Agriculture
partOf United States Department of Agriculture
programType electric programs
telecommunications programs
water and environmental programs
provides grants
loan guarantees
loans
technical assistance
regulates certain borrower utilities receiving federal financing
replaced Rural Electrification Administration
responsibleFor broadband infrastructure in rural areas
electric utility infrastructure in rural areas
telecommunications infrastructure in rural areas
wastewater utility infrastructure in rural areas
water utility infrastructure in rural areas
sector infrastructure financing
public utilities
rural development
serviceArea rural America
rural communities
website https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/electric-programs

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Rural Utilities Service
Description of subject: The Rural Utilities Service is a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency that provides financing and support for infrastructure and utility services—such as electricity, water, and telecommunications—in rural communities.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rural Electrification Administration replacedBy Rural Utilities Service
USDA Rural Development mission area hasComponent Rural Utilities Service