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AIMD-95-29 1 (1994-11-18)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Accounting and Information
             Management Division


             B-259420





             November 18, 1994

             To the President of the Senate and the
             Speaker of the House of Representatives


             Section 408(b)(3)(I) of the Rural Electrification Act of
             1936, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
             1987 (Public Law 100-203), requires us to annually review the
             interest rate charged to borrowers, referred to as the cost
             of money rate, as determined by the Governor of the Rural
             Telephone Bank (RTB) for the preceding fiscal year. We are
             to report to the Congress on the accuracy of this interest
             rate determination within 15 days of receiving it. In
             addition, due to the passage of the Federal Credit Reform Act
             of 1990, RTB must calculate a second cost of money rate. In
             accordance with Public Law 100-203 and the Federal Credit
             Reform Act of 1990, RTB now calculates the following two
             rates: (1) the interest rate used for advances made during
             fiscal year 1994 on loans approved prior to fiscal year 1992
             (referred to as loans from the liquidating account) and
             (2) the interest rate used for advances made during fiscal
             year 1994 on loans approved during or after fiscal year 1992
             (referred to as loans from the financing account).

             On November 4, 1994, we received RTB's rate determinations
             which established RTB's fiscal year 1994 cost of money rates
             at 6.15 percent and 6.40 percent for advances from the
             liquidating account and financing account, respectively. We
             reviewed these rate determinations and found them to be in
             accordance with the requirements of section 1411 (c) of the
             Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 and 7 CFR Part
             1610. We traced the dollar amounts and rates used in
             calculating the cost of money rates to summary financial
             records provided by RTB and recomputed each cost of money
             rate calculation.




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