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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION REA Bulletin 1-3 (Electric) REA Bulletin 300-2 (Telephone) RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ACT OF 1936 [7 U.S.C. 901-950b] WITH AMENDMENTS AS APPROVED THROUGH DEC. 22, 1981 Note: Material added after August 4, 1977, shown in italics; stricken material shown lined out. \ CHRONOLOGY I 1935. The Rural Electrification Administration was created by Executive Order 7037 of May 11 under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115). t 1936. Statutory provision for the agency was made in the Rural Electrification Act (RE Act) of 1936, approved May 20 (49 Stat. 1363? 7 U.S. Code, Chapter 31). 1938. Title IV of the Work Relief and Public Works Appropriation Act of 1938, approved June 21 ("RE Act of 1938," 52 Stat. 818) authorized further borrowing from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and added a requirement that borrowers from REA agree to use materials and supplies produced in the United States. 1939. REA became a part of the Department of Agriculture under Reorganization Plan II, effective July 1. 1944. Title V of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, approved September 21 (58 Stat. 739) liberalized the terms of REA loans and removed the time limitation from its lending program. 1944. On December 23, the Rural Electrification Act was further amended to authorize REA to refinance certain rural electrification obligations owed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (58 Stat. 925). 1947. The Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1948, approved July 30, (61 Stat. 546) further amended the Rural Electrification Act