Rural-Electric

👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Electric Cooperative Broadband Authority A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Federal authorization in the 119th Congress for rural electric cooperatives to expand into broadband service delivery, leveraging existing fiber-and-pole infrastructure. What does it actually do? USDA Rural Utilities Service loan eligibility for cooperative broadband BEAD program coordination provisions Cooperative-cross-subsidy clarity Federal-pole-attachment authority for cooperative broadband providers How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with BEAD Broadband Expansion + Universal Broadband Floor + Federal Broadband Affordability Bounty Posters. Direct kin-cooperative federation potential — rural electric cooperatives expanding into broadband are natural cooperative-class peers. ...

👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Electrification 2.0 A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Rural electric cooperative modernization legislation in the 119th Congress, addressing aging rural-electric infrastructure, clean-energy transition financing, and rural-cooperative debt-restructuring options. What does it actually do? USDA Rural Utilities Service loan modernization Cooperative-utility clean-energy transition financing Rural-broadband + rural-electric infrastructure-coordination provisions Rural-cooperative governance modernization (Crown candidate references abound) How does this affect cooperative-class families? Direct composing structurally — rural electric cooperatives are the legacy cooperative-class infrastructure (~1,000 cooperatives serving ~42 million Americans). Their modernization composes with Liana Banyan’s cooperative-class architecture as kin-cooperative federation potential. ...