Dec 19, 2023
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, urged United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Andrew Berke to maximize the benefit of USDA’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program by giving full and fair consideration to the projects proposed in the letters of intent submitted by Colorado rural electric cooperatives.