---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 921"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "921"
heading: "Congressional declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/921"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service"
  - "Subchapter II — Rural Telephone Service"
---

# §921. Congressional declaration of policy


It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that adequate [telephone service](/usc/7/924.md?p=a) be made generally available in [rural areas](/usc/7/913.md?p=3) through the improvement and expansion of existing telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate [telephone service](/usc/7/924.md?p=a) to the widest practicable number of rural users of such service.


## Source credit

(Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 1, 63 Stat. 948.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is composed of the first sentence of section 1 of act Oct. 28, 1949. The second sentence of section 1 of that act, which provided that: “In order to effectuate this policy, the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 [this chapter] is amended as hereinafter provided” , is omitted from the Code.

Section was not enacted as part of title II of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which comprises subchapter II of this chapter.