---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1700.57"
title: "7"
number: "1700.57"
heading: "Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1700.57"
---

# §1700.57. Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.

- (a) **Administrator—** The authority to approve the following loans and lien accommodations is reserved to the Administrator:
  - (1) **Grants or loan and grant combinations.**
  - (2) The number selected from each state for financial assistance for grant approval and loans or grants approved.
  - (3) **Extension of principal and interest repayments for rural development purposes.**
  - (4) Loan contracts, security instruments, and all other documents to be executed in connection with loans and loan guarantees approved by the Administrator.
- (b) **Assistant Administrator, Telecommunications Program,—** has the authority to approve the following loans and lien accommodations and subordinations of liens:
  - (1) Loans, that do not also include requests for grant funds, except for those reserved to the Administrator.
  - (2) Loan contracts, security instruments, and all other documents to be executed in connection with loans and loan guarantees approved by the Assistant Administrator, Telecommunications Program.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552; 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 1921 et seq., 6941 et seq.; 7 CFR 2.7.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 16085, Apr. 2, 1998, unless otherwise noted.