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This section revises the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program (i.e., a Department of Energy program to enhance cybersecurity for electric utilities). The revision (1) defines key terms, including eligible entities such as rural electric cooperatives, municipally owned electric utilities, certain state or local government-owned utilities, not-for-profit entities partnering with at least six such utilities, and investor-owned utilities selling less than 4,000,000 megawatt hours annually; (2) directs the Secretary of Energy to maintain the program to provide technical assistance and competitive or noncompetitive funding—including grants, cooperative agreements, and prizes—to eligible entities for protecting against, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cybersecurity threats, with objectives to deploy advanced cybersecurity technologies and increase participation in threat information sharing; (3) requires funding and assistance priorities for entities with limited cybersecurity resources, assets critical to bulk-power system reliability, or defense critical electric infrastructure; (4) exempts program-shared information from the Freedom of Information Act and analogous state, tribal, and local disclosure laws; and (5) authorizes $250 million for FY2026 through 2030 (from FY2022 through 2026).