Recently, SARL was a signee with 200 rural support groups on a letter to President Trump regarding rebuilding the infrastructure of rural America. In the wake of the Rural Infrastructure Coalition’s letter to President Trump, the organizer's led by Farm Credit, want to develop a Rural Infrastructure “Repository” (i.e. database) –– a ready listing of “rural infrastructure” projects and other research dedicated to the infrastructure needs of Rural America. As the President’s speech to Congress highlighted, legislative efforts in this policy area will begin to take shape shortly and we believe it will be important for the President and Members of Congress to have a ready list of rural infrastructure projects, particularly, as it relates to their respective states and districts.
They are asking you to submit your current prioritizations for infrastructure needs, including any associated research papers and they have created a dedicated email account to ease the submission process: ruralinfrastructure@fccouncil.com. Once they have collected enough data to formulate a draft “repository”/database document, they will re-circulate the list to make sure they have adequately and accurately captured all the desired projects of rural emphasis.
If submitting projects for hte database please include:1) A point of contact (name, phone & email), 2) The author, organizations and year of any related study/published data/issue area (i.e. broadband, water, sewer, power, other types of rural infrastructure, etc.). If your in doubt of what to submit, drop me a note and we can talk about it (corr@sarl.us)