PART I
LIST OF NEW, REVISED, AND RESCINDED REA ISSUANCES
Bulletins:
1751H-403 TECM 961 |
Replaces:
TECM 950,951
|
Informational Publications (IP):
100-1 |
Replaces:
Bul. 300-1:1-3 |
BULLETINS
345-150 345-151 |
345-152 345-153 |
345-154 345-165 |
BULLETINS
300-2 300-4 302-1 303-1 304-1 306-1 310-1 320-1 320-4 320-14 320-23 322-1 323-1 324-1 325-1 326-1 327-1 340-1 340-2 |
340-3 340-4 341-1 341-3 342-1 343-1 344-1 344-2 345-2 345-4 345-7 345-8 345-10 345-14 345-16 345-18 345-19 345-20 345-21 |
345-23 345-24 345-25 345-26 345-27 345-28 345-30 345-31 345-34 345-35 345-38 345-42 345-44 345-46 345-47 345-51 345-53 345-58 345-59 |
345-60 345-61 345-64 345-70 345-73 345-74 345-77 345-79 345-80 345-81 345-82 345-84 345-85 345-99 345-166 345-167 345-169 361-8 380-3 |
381-1 381-2 381-4 381-7 381-8 381-9 381-10 381-11 381-13 382-2 382-3 383-1 384-1 384-2 384-3 384-4 385-2 385-3 385-4 |
387-1 387-2 387-3 387-5 400-1 404-1 409-2 409-3 440-1 441-2 447-3 467-1 462-1 463-1 |
TE&CM
Sections
101 102 105 141 157 304 |
325 327 470 510 511 512 |
515 516 520 610 617 636 |
645 646 690 760 925 934 |
936 940 943 948 919 950 |
951 970 971 974 976 |
TOM
Sections
1031 1032 1036 1092 1099 |
1208.1 1208.4 1238 1266 1276 |
1286 1356 1356.4 1356.6 1356.10 |
1357 1358 1358.1 1359.1 1370 |
1490 1530 1605 1630 1720 |
1855 1970 1971 1990 |
PART II
Numerical Listing of Current REA Issuances
Section A
TELEPHONE BULLETINS
Number Issued Subject
50-18* 01/82 REA Specification for Wood Poles, Stubs and Anchor Logs (DT-5C)
50-24* 06/87 REA Specification for Quality Control and Inspection of Timber Products (DT-19)
100-1: 04/60 Selection of an Attorney by an REA Borrower
400-2 Supplement
300-5 08/69 General Funds
10/87 File With
301-1: 08/69 Guiding Statement of REA Policy Concerning its Relationship with Borrowers
2-1
305-1: 03/54 Joint Use of Facilities for Telephone and Electric Service
5-1 06/59 Supplement
06/61 Supplement
02/72 Supplement
320-2: 05/72 Extensions of Payments of Principal and Interest
20-5
320-5 05/72 Headquarters Facilities for Telephone Borrowers
320-9 03/65 Organization and Capital Structure of Telephone Borrowers
320-12: 09/82 Loan Payments and Statements
20-9 09/88 Supplement
320-15: 07/70 Equal Employment Opportunity in Construction Financed with REA Loans
20-15 07/72 Supplement
320-19: 07/78 Nondiscrimination Among Beneficiaries of REA Programs
20-19
320-22 02/75 Guarantee of Loans for Telephone Facilities
09/75 Supplement
321-2 09/75 Loan Security Requirements for Telephone
322-2 04/67 Rural Area Coverage - Telephone Loans
344-3: 07/55 "Buy American" Requirement
43-9
345-3 10/81 Acceptance of Standards, Specifications, Equipment Contract Forms, Manual
Sections, Drawings, Materials and Equipment for the Telephone Program
* Bulletin incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations. # Available through the Government Printing Office
Number Issued Subject
345-6* 01/78 REA Standards for Splicing Plastic Insulated Cables (PC-2)
345-13* 01/83 REA Specification for Aerial and Underground Cable (PE-22)
345-22* 01/89 REA Specification for Voice Frequency Loading Coils (PE-26)
345-29* 02/82 REA Specification for Self-Supporting Cable (PE-38)
345-36 01/83 REA Specification for Parallel Conductor Drop Wire (PE-7)
345-39* 08/85 REA Specification for Telephone Station Protectors (PE-42)
345-50* 09/79 REA Specification for Trunk Carrier Systems (PE-60)
345-52* 01/80 REA Standard for Service Entrance and Station Protector Installation (PC-5A)
345-54* 12/71 REA Specification for Telephone Cable Splicing Connectors (PE-52)
08/72 Revised Pages
345-55* 12/73 REA Specification for Central Office Loop Extenders & Loop Extenders Voice
Frequency Repeater Combinations (PE-61)
345-57 05/82 REA Specification for Microwave Radio Equipment (PE-63)
345-63* 05/76 REA Standard for Acceptance Tests and Measurements of Telephone Plant (PC-4)
345-65* 03/85 REA Specification for Shield Bonding Connectors (PE-33)
345-66* 09/79 REA Specification for Subscriber Carrier Systems (PE-64)
08/80 Pen and Ink Revision
345-67* 01/87 REA Specification for Filled Telephone Cables (PE-39)
345-69* 01/78 REA Specification for Two-Wire Voice Frequency Repeater Equipment (PE-29)
10/82 Addendum No. 1
345-72* 10/85 REA Specification for Filled Splice Closures (PE-74)
345-75* 01/77 REA Specification for Electronic Trunk Circuits (PE-65)
345-76 05/77 REA Specification for Spring Action Bonding Connectors Within Buried Plant
Housings (PE-57)
345-78* 02/80 REA Specification for Carbon Arrestor Assemblies for Use in Protectors (PE-78)
07/80 Supplement
345-83 07/79 REA Specification for Gas Tube Surge Arresters (PE-80)
10/82 Supplement
345-86* 10/82 REA Specification for Filled Buried Service Wire (PE-86)
345-87* 12/83 REA Specification for Terminating (TIP) Cable (PE-87)
Number Issued Subject
345-89* 10/85 REA Specification for Filled Telephone Cable with Expanded Insulation (PE-89)
345-90* 05/86 Totally Filled Fiber Optic Cable (PE-90)
345-150*# 07/89 Specifications and Drawings for Construction of Direct Buried Plant (Form 515a)
345-151* 07/89 Specifications and Drawings for Conduit and Manhole Construction (Form 515c)
345-152* 07/89 Specifications and Drawings for Underground Cable Installation (Form 515d)
345-153* 07/89 Specifications and Drawings for Construction of Pole Lines, Aerial Cables and
Wires (Form 515f)
345-154* 07/89 Specifications and Drawings for Service Entrance and Station Protector Installation
(Form 515g)
345-165* 02/89 REA General Specification for Digital, Stored Program Controlled Central Office
Equipment (Form 522)
345-168* 10/77 REA Specification for Equipment for Direct Distance Dialing (Form 538)
345-180* 01/63 Specifications for Voice Frequency Repeaters and Voice Frequency Repeated
Trunks (Form 397a)
345-181 10/80 Design Specifications for Trunk Carrier System (Form 397b)
345-182 10/80 Design Specifications for Subscriber Carrier Systems (Form 397c)
345-183* 06/70 Design Specification for Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Systems (Form 397d)
345-184* 05/71 Mobile and Fixed Dial Radio Telephone Specification (Form 397e)
345-185* 07/85 REA Performance Specification for Line Concentrators (Form 397g)
380-1 07/56 Right-of-Way and Title Procedures - Telephone
04/66 Supplement 1 to Appendix A
01/77 Supplement
385-1 12/62 Preloan Procedures and Requirements for Two-Way Radiotelephone Service
385-5 04/66 Loans to Finance Radio Equipment for Subscriber Service
385-6 12/75 Preloan Procedures and Requirements for Radio Paging Service
387-4: 09/81 Presentation of Building Plans and Specifications
86-4
400-4: 12/65 Payment of Legal Fees From Loan and Equity Funds
100-1 05/74 Pen and Ink Change
400-3: 06/62 Agreements for the Operation and Management of Borrowers' Systems
100-5
Number Issued Subject
400-5 01/64 Operating Conditions Endangering Loan Security
401-2 06/54 Responsibilities of a Telephone Co-op Director
401-3: 11/75 Annual Meeting Guide for Rural Electric and Telephone Cooperatives
101-4
402-1 12/62 Mortgage Restrictions on Dividends and Other Distributions - Telephone Borrowers
02/72 Supplement
10/75 Supplement
02/78 Supplement
402-2 11/60 Partial Waiver of Security Instrument Provisions Relating to Distribution of Capital
by Cooperatives
10/77 Supplement
402-3: 03/64 Capital Credits - Consumer Benefits
102-1 12/73 Supplement
08/74 Appendix B
403-3 10/59 Minutes of Meetings of Directors, Stockholders, or Members Telephone
09/77 Supplement
403-4: 10/77 5 Percent Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness - REA Series and 2 Percent
103-9 Treasury Bonds - REA Series
405-1 07/62 Financial Planning by Telephone Borrowers
407-1: 02/79 Data Processing Systems
107-1
409-1 05/72 Selection of a Manager by Telephone Borrowers
409-7: 06/86 Expanding Manpower Resources Through Cooperative Education
109-7
411-1 06/61 Extended Area Service
415-1 08/60 Sale of Property by Telephone Borrowers
06/66 Supplement
10/77 Supplement
07/79 Supplement
460-2: 04/71 Selection of Depositories for Funds of REA Borrowers
180-6
460-3 12/71 ABC's of Accounting and Interpretation of Financial Statements
464-1 02/59 Accounting for Damages Resulting from Delayed Completion of Construction
Number Issued Subject
464-2 06/65 Accounting and Reporting Procedures Covering Large Investments in Special
Communications Facilities
1751H-403 07/91 Digital Transmission Fundamentals
1751H-405 10/92 Digital Span Lines
1751H-501 04/91 Fundamentals of ISDN
1751H-601 05/91 Lightwave Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications
1751H-701 03/92 Radio Sytem Fundamentals and Point-to-Point Digital Radio Systems
1751H-703 12/91 BETRS Radio Systems
1751H-705 09/91 Fundamentals of Cellular Radio Service
1755I-100# 01/91 List of Material Acceptable for Use on Telephone Systems of REA Borrowers
SECTION B
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION MANUAL (TE&CM)
Section Number Issued Subject
116 01 12/65 Plant Engineering and Record Systems
03/66 Addendum No. 1
118 01 05/78 Plant Records System Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
128 01 05/55 Cutsheet
201 05 11/83 Introduction to Objectives to Rural Telephone System Designs
203 01 04/71 Existing Plant Considerations for a Telephone System Design
204 01 05/71 Telephone System Design
205 05 04/71 Assembly and Arrangement of an Area Coverage Design
207 01 07/74 Design Criteria for Plant Reinforcement Upgrading from Four-Party to All
One-Party
210 08 07/74 Telephone System Design - Sizing Criteria
218 04 02/87 Plant Annual Cost Data for Design Purposes
219 01 01/78 Present Worth of Annual Charge Studies for System Design
230 02 02/86 General Principles of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering (SAVE)
231 02 02/86 Design Techniques of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering (SAVE)
232 02 02/86 Transmission Design and Costs Considerations of Feeder - Distribution Cable
Engineering (SAVE)
301 03 12/76 Central Office Buildings
302 06 04/89 Power Requirements for Community Dial Central Office Equipment
306 01 09/85 Earthquake Bracing for Central Office Equipment
319 04 10/78 Interoffice Trunking and Signaling
320 04 04/76 Emergency Generating and Charging Equipment
322 03 02/90 Application for the Preparation of Detailed Digital Central Office Equipment
Requirements (Part III of REA Form 522)
323 01 09/79 Fundamentals of Digital Techniques and Switching
324 01 04/80 Digital Terminology
332 01 08/69 Guide for Utilization of Central Office Loop Extenders
Section Number Issued Subject
340 02 01/79 Subscriber Line Concentrators
341 02 10/84 Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Line Concentrator
Requirements
401 01 12/80 Subscriber Loop Electronic System
406 03 08/77 Transmission Facility Data
407 01 03/59 How to Make Insertion Loss Measurements
415 04 06/90 Transmission Objectives
424 04 07/88 Design Guidelines for Telecommunications Subscriber Loop Plant
426 02 12/77 Subscriber Loop Computations Design-By-Loss Method
427 03 03/82 Application of Voice Frequency Repeaters for Subscriber Loops and Two-Wire
Trunk Circuits
428 01 10/65 Applications and Use of Bridge Tap Isolators (BTI) for Subscriber Loops
429 01 01/79 Automatic Gain Control Repeaters and Their Application to Common Mode
Operation
431 02 10/62 Voice Frequency Loading for Trunk Cables
04/75 Addendum No. 1
432 01 02/68 Acceptance Tests for Loaded Subscriber Loop "One-Man" Structural Plant -
Return Loss Method from the Central Office
435 01 01/79 Cable Capacitance Measurements
445 02 01/65 How to Make Structural Return Loss Measurements
451 02 09/79 Telephone Noise Measurement and Mitigation
09/81 Addendum No. 1
451.1 01 09/79 Noise Isolation
451.2 02 04/84 Shield Continuity
451.3 01 09/79 Cable Balance
451.4 01 09/79 Longitudinal Chokes
451.5 01 09/79 Neutralizing Transformers
451.6 01 09/79 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)
451.7 01 02/81 Grounding for Reduction of Power Influence
451.8 01 02/81 Improved Cable Pair Balance by Conductor Reversal
Section Number Issued Subject
452 01 12/80 Specialized Telephone Noise Measurements and Investigation
452.1 01 12/80 Telephone Cable Pair Harmonic Analysis
452.2 01 12/80 Exploring Coil Measurements
452.3 01 12/80 Probe Wire Measurements
602 04 05/62 Clearance
09/63 Addendum No. 1
605 04 01/79 Right-of-Way Clearing and Trimming Assembly Units - Aerial Plant
611 03 03/60 Design of Pole Lines
10/66 Addendum No. 3
626 02 06/62 Staking of Aerial Plant
628 02 01/68 Plastic-Insulated Cable Plant Layout
629 03 01/77 Cable Plant Layout - Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
630 03 03/62 Design of Aerial Cable Plant
10/66 Addendum No. 2
01/79 Addendum No. 3
635 03 02/62 Construction of Aerial Cable Plant
10/66 Addendum No. 2
03/79 Addendum No. 3
08/79 Addendum No. 4
640 04 05/73 Design of Buried Plant Physical Considerations
06/67 Memo Supplement - Design and Construction of Joint Buried Plant
01/79 Addendum No. 1
641 04 04/73 Construction of Buried Plant
642 01 12/67 Staking of Buried Plant
643 02 09/69 Underground Conduit and Manhole Design and Construction (Physical Plant)
644 03 04/83 Design and Construction of Underground Cable
648 01 01/77 Serving Area Value Engineering (Physical Plant)
650 04 02/60 Guys and Anchors on Wire and Cable Lines
10/66 Addendum No. 1
04/62 Addendum No. 2
670 02 01/82 Corrosion Consideration in Telecommunications Outside Plant
801 04 09/84 Electrical Protection Fundamentals
Section Number Issued Subject
802 02 09/84 Electrical Protection Grounding Fundamentals
805 08 08/80 Electrical Protection at Subscriber Stations
810 06 09/83 Electrical Protection
815 04 04/69 Electrical Protection of Aerial Cable
816 03 07/69 Electrical Protection of Buried Plant
01/71 Addendum No. 1
12/72 Addendum No. 2
817 01 03/80 Electrical Protection by Effective Grounding of Cable Shields
822 05 09/81 Electrical Protection of Carrier Equipment
823 03 08/80 Electrical Protection by Use of Gas Tube Arresters
825 03 09/73 Situations Requiring Special Protection
830 05 04/71 Electrical Protection Assembly Units
901 03 09/83 Fundamentals of Carrier Transmissions
903 03 01/81 Applications Guide for Subscriber Carrier Specifications, (REA Form 397c)
904 03 01/81 Application Guide for Trunk Carrier Specifications (REA Form 397b)
905 01 10/63 Cable Carrier Systems and Carrier Frequency Transmission Through Cables
909 01 12/67 Impedance Matching for Carrier Multiplex Systems
911 02 09/71 Station Carrier Equipment
05/80 Addendum No. 1
912 01 04/71 Station Carrier Equipment
05/80 Addendum No. 1
921 11/76 Testing Cables for Carrier Application
933 02 04/70 Application Guide for Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Systems Specification,
(REA Form 397e)
945 01 07/66 ITMS - Improved Mobile Telephone System
954 01 12/82 Digital Terminals & Multiplexers
958 01 09/88 Digital Cross-Connect & Drop & Interest System
961 01 06/90 Application Guide for Digital Lightwave Transmission System Specification,
(REA Form 397e)
SECTION C
TELEPHONE
OPERATIONS MANUAL (TOM)Section Number Issued Subject
GENERAL
SECTION D
INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATIONS (IP)
Number Issued Subject
100-1 02/92 Rural Electrification Act of 1936 with Amendments through December, 1991
100-7 03/92 A Brief History of the Rural Electric and Telephone Programs and Report
of the Administrator Fiscal Year 1991
300-4# 08/91 1990 Statistical Report, Rural Telephone Borrowers
300-5 09/91 Fiscal Year Summary Rural Telephone Program
400-1 08/90 Bylaws of Rural Telephone Bank
400-2 06/91 19th Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Rural Telephone Bank, FY 1990
500-1 01/92 REA Telephone Directory
500-10 05/91 Directory of Telephone Borrowers
* Bulletin incorporated by reference in the Federal Code of Regulations. # Available through the Government Printing Office.