The ReConnect Program offers unique federal financing options in the form of grants, loans, and combinations thereof to create or improve rural e-Connectivity for rural customers across America.
To-date, USDA has invested in 10 projects in the fifth round of the ReConnect Program. The investments represent $172.8 million in grant and loan funding for high-speed internet. The funded service areas include a total of 3,490 households.
10
Entities with Active Awards
$172.8 million
Amount Awarded
10
Total States and Territories
View Awardees for Each Funding Category
- 100% Grant for Alaska Native Corporations, Tribal Governments, Colonias, Persistent Poverty Areas and Socially Vulnerable Communities
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Applicant: Standing Rock Telecommunications, Inc.
Location: North Dakota, South Dakota
Total Square Miles: 749.43
Funded Service Area Households: 133
Award Amount: $22,230,053This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 426 people, 16 businesses, 104 farms and three educational facilities in Sioux County, North Dakota and Corson County, South Dakota. This project will serve Standing Rock Reservation and socially vulnerable communities in Sioux and Corson counties.
- 100% Grant
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Applicant: Copper Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Location: Alaska
Total Square Miles: 1.36
Funded Service Area Households: 56
Award Amount: $16,588,260This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 140 people in Chugach Census Area in Alaska. This project will serve Tatitlek Alaska Native Village Statistical Area.
- 100% Loan
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Applicant: Clear Creek Mutual Telephone Company
Location: Oregon
Total Square Miles: 2.08
Funded Service Area Households: 32
Award Amount: $2,819,536This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 102 people, three businesses and five farms in Clackamas County in Oregon.
Applicant: J.B.N. Telephone Company, Inc.
Location: Kansas
Total Square Miles: 229.09
Funded Service Area Households: 132
Award Amount: $6,630,755This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 329 people, seven businesses and 178 farms in Cloud, Republic and Washington counties in Kansas.
Applicant: Mountain View Telephone Company
Location: Arkansas
Total Square Miles: 142.29
Funded Service Area Households: 1,158
Award Amount: $25,280,740This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 2,630 people, 46 businesses, 124 farms and six educational facilities in Izard and Stone counties in Arkansas.
Applicant: Pembroke Telephone Cooperative
Location: Virginia
Total Square Miles: 129.09
Funded Service Area Households: 870
Award Amount: $10,063,100This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 2,127 people, 22 businesses and 130 farms in Craig, Giles and Montgomery counties in Virginia.
Applicant: Roosevelt County Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Location: New Mexico
Total Square Miles: 1,244.29
Funded Service Area Households: 115
Award Amount: $29,077,000This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 323 people, 12 businesses and 261 farms in Chaves, De Baca, Lea and Roosevelt counties in New Mexico. This project will serve socially vulnerable communities in Roosevelt and De Baca counties.
Applicant: Table Top Telephone Company, Inc.
Location: Arizona
Total Square Miles: 375.32
Funded Service Area Households: 394
Award Amount: $3,959,918This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises hybrid fixed wireless network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 766 people, 21 businesses and 39 farms in Yavapai County in Arizona.
Applicant: Western New Mexico Telephone Company, Inc.
Location: New Mexico
Total Square Miles: 102.27
Funded Service Area Households: 331
Award Amount: $44,999,600This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 656 people, 25 businesses, six farms and one educational facility in Catron, Grant and Socorro counties in New Mexico.
- 50/50 Loan/Grant Combination
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Applicant: 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Location: Montana
Total Square Miles: 183.10
Funded Service Area Households: 269
Award Amount: $11,151,040This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 594 people, 27 businesses, 47 farms and two educational facilities in Madison and Teton counties in Montana.