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| Media Advisory No. 4173.10 |
Contact:
USDA Office of Communications
(202) 720-4623
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Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to Announce New Broadband Investments in 38 States, Tribal Areas; Projects to Spur Job Creation in Rural Areas
WASHINGTON, Aug, 3, 2010 – TOMORROW, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will announce new Recovery Act broadband infrastructure projects that will create jobs and provide rural residents in 38 states and Native American tribal areas access to improved service that can expand economic, health care, educational and public safety services to underserved rural communities. The announcement is part of the second round of USDA broadband funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).
States benefiting from this announcement include: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
| WHO: |
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein |
| WHAT: |
Media teleconference to announce funding of broadband service through the USDA Broadband Initiatives Program |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday, August 4
12:45 p.m. EDT |
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PRESS CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT ACCESS: Reporters -- use audio bridge number- 800-857-5233. PASSCODE: USDA (Given Verbally). Trouble number- 202-720-8560.
All callers using the above pass code will be placed in listen only mode. To join the Q&A portion of the meeting, these callers are instructed to press *1 on their touch tone phone. |
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