<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Looking directly at the USDA RUS press release on the Smart Grid funding,<div>it notes that ten states will receive funding; New Mexico is not one of the ten.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/06/0247.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent">www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/06/0247.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent</a></div><div><br></div><div>RL</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><h1><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">RUS to administer $250 million in smart grid loans</span></font></h1><p class="deck">Funding is one element of government smart grid initiatives announced today</p></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://connectedplanetonline.com/independent/news/RUS-to-administer-250-million-in-smart-grid-loans-0613/">http://connectedplanetonline.com/independent/news/RUS-to-administer-250-million-in-smart-grid-loans-0613/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><br><div>
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