---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 940i"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "940i"
heading: "Cybersecurity and grid security improvements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/940i"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service"
  - "Subchapter III — Rural Electric and Telephone Direct Loan Programs"
---

# §940i. Cybersecurity and grid security improvements

- (a) **Definition of cybersecurity and grid security improvements—** In this section, the term “cybersecurity and grid [security](/usc/7/24.md?p=b) improvements” means investment in the development, expansion, and modernization of rural utility infrastructure that addresses known cybersecurity and grid [security](/usc/7/24.md?p=b) risks.
- (b) **Loans and loan guarantees—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/913.md?p=5) may make or guarantee loans under this subchapter and subchapter I for cybersecurity and grid [security](/usc/7/24.md?p=b) improvements.

## Source credit

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title III, § 319, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6507, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4775.)