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USDA Releasing Rural Development Money
Published Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 05:10 AM
Secretary Tom Vilsack says utilities in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee have been selected to receive funds that will create jobs and new business opportunities in rural America.

For example, Tideland Electric Membership Corporation in Washington County, North Carolina, has been selected to receive a 740-thousand dollar loan and 300-thousand dollar grant to help construct a manufacturing facility in an industrial park. The new business will provide medical manufacturing jobs.

And in Miner County, South Dakota, the Heartland Consumers Power District has been selected to receive a 740-thousand dollar loan and a 300-thousand dollar grant to provide funding for the construction of a facility to provide training opportunities for workers in the renewable energy industry.

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