---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 950cc–1"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "950cc–1"
heading: "Environmental reviews"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/950cc-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §950cc–1. Environmental reviews


The [Secretary](/usc/7/913.md?p=5) may obligate, but not disperse, funds under this chapter before the completion of otherwise required environmental, historical, or other types of reviews if the [Secretary](/usc/7/913.md?p=5) determines that a subsequent site-specific review shall be adequate and easily accomplished for the location of towers, poles, or other broadband facilities in the service area of the borrower without compromising the project or the required reviews.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title VII, § 702, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6208, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4743.)