Telecommunications Program

 


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If you have questions concerning the following documents or can not find a particular document, please email Norberto Esteves - norberto.esteves@usda.gov.

For hard copies of RUS publications, please email Adam Miller at adam.miller@usda.gov or call him at (202)720-8674.

Bulletin #
DOC
PDF
Description
300-3 Index of Telecommunications Program Issuances
300-3 Index of Telecommunications Program Issuances (Unofficial Draft Dated December 2002)
320-12
Fedwire Deposit System Wire Message Format
344-3
Buy American Requirement
345-3
Acceptance of Standards, Specifications, Equipment Contract Forms, Manual Sections, Drawings, Materials and Equipment for the Telephone Program
345-54   Revised Page in REA Specifications PE-52
345-72 Specifications for Filled Splice Closures, PE-74
345-78   Specifications for Carbon Arrester Assemblies for Use in Protectors, PE-78
345-83   Specification for Gas Tube Surge Arresters,
PE-80
415-1
Provisions for the inclusion of Rural Telephone Bank - Sale of Property by Telephone Borrowers
1710B-1     http://www.usda.gov/rus/index2/rusregs.htm
1738-1
Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program Application Guide
1738-2 Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Advance and Construction Procedures Guide
1744-2 Instructions for Preparing Financial and Statistical Reports for Telecommunications Borrowers, Operating Report
1724E-400
.doc
Building plans and specifications
1751E-302 Power requirements for digital central office equipment
1751E-319 Interoffice trunking and signaling
1751E-320 Emergency generating and charging equipment
1751E-322   Application Guide for the preparation of Detailed Digital Centeral Office Equipment Requirements (Form 522)
1751F-626 Staking of Aerial Plant
1751F-630 Design of Aerial Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-635 Construction of Aerial Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-640 Design of buried plant, physical considerations
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-641 Construction of Buried Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-642 Construction route planning of buried plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-643 Underground Plant Design (Update 8/28/02)
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-644 Underground Plant Construction (Update 8/28/02)
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-650 Aerial Plant Guying and Anchoring
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-670 Outside Plant corrosion considerations
1751F-801 Electrical Protection Fundamentals
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-802 Electrical Protection Grounding Fundamentals
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-805 Electrical Protection at Customer Locations
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1751F-810 Electrical Protection of Digital & Lightwave Telecommunications Equipment
1751F-815 Electrical Protection of Outside Plant
1751H-403 Digital Transmission Fundamentals
1751H-405 Digital Transmission Systems
1751H-501 Fundamentals of ISDN
1751H-601 Lightwave Fundamentals, Systems and Applications
1751H-701 Radio System Fundamentals, Point-to-Point Digital Microwave Radio
1751H-703 Radio System - BETRS
1751H-705 Fundamentals of cellular radio service
1753E-001 Specifications for digital, stored program controlled central office equipment (Form 522)
1753E-002 Telecommunications Software License Agreement
1753E-201 Acceptance Tests for Digital, Stored Program Controlled Central Office Equipment
1753F-150 RUS Form 515a - Specifications and Drawings for Construction of Direct Buried Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-151 RUS Form 515b - Specification and Drawings for Construction of Underground Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-152 RUS Form 515c - Specifications and Drawings for Construction of Aerial Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-153 RUS Form 515d - Specification and Drawings for Service Installation at Customer Access Locations
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-201 Acceptance Tests and Measurements of Telecommunications Plant
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-204 Specifications for Aerial Service Wires (PE-7)
1753F-205   Specification for Filled Telephone Cable (PE-39)
1753F-206 Specifications for Filled Buried Wire (PE-86)
1753F-207 Specifications for Terminating Cables (PE-87)
1753F-208   Specifications for Filled Telephone Cables with Expanded Insulation (PE-89)
1753F-302 Specifications for Outside Plant Housings and Serving Area Interface System (PE-91)
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-401 Standards for Splicing Copper and Fiber Optic Cable (PC-2)
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1753F-601 Specifications for Filled Fiber Optic Cables (PE-90)
1753F-801 Service Installations at Customer Access Locations (PC-5A)
(.pdf version includes drawings)
1770-1   REA Work Order Procedure
1770B-1 Part 32, Uniform System of Accounts and Supplementary Accounts
1794a-600 Guide for Preparing and Environment Report for Categorically Excluded Projects