PART I

 

 

LIST OF NEW, REVISED, AND RESCINDED REA ISSUANCES

 

 


NEW ISSUANCES

Bulletins:

1751H-403
1751H-405
1751H-501
1751H-601
1751H-701
1751H-703
1751H-705
1751I-100

TECM

961


Replaces:

TECM 950,951
TECM 956
TECM 760
TECM 961,970,974,976
TECM 930,931,932
TECM 948,949
New
Bul. 344-2





New

Informational
Publications (IP):

100-1
100-7
300-5
300-4
400-1
500-1
500-10


Replaces:

Bul. 300-1:1-3
IP 100-2 & 100-5
NEW
Bul. 300-4
New
New
New

 


REVISED ISSUANCES

BULLETINS

345-150
345-151
345-152
345-153
345-154
345-165

 


RESCINDED ISSUANCES

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

 


RESCINDED ISSUANCES
(Continued)

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
1001 02 05/65 Scope and Use of the Telephone Operations

1002 22 11/81 Numerical Index

1050 01 07/60 Restoration of Service in Case of Disaster

1070 05 12/75 Short-Range Planning

1071 02 12/60 What Your Financial Reports Tell You

1081 01 12/76 Long-Range System and Financial Planning

1089.1 01 10/75 Quality of Service Evaluation Guide for an Appraisal

1090 02 07/70 Improving Management of Telephone Systems

1101 01 06/68 Model Bylaws for Telephone Cooperatives

COMMERCIAL
1440 02 01/66 Service Order Procedure

1510 02 01/80 Telephone Tariff

ACCOUNTING
1800 01 12/88 Instructions for Preparation of Financial and Statistical Reports for Telephone
Systems Financed by the REA

1860 02 03/68 Suggested Work Order Procedure

1870 01 12/54 Continuing Property Records

1870.1 01 12/60 Guide for Establishing Continuing Property Records

1870.2 01 06/70 A Suggested List of Property Record Units for Telephone Borrowers

1951 02 07/64 Procedures for Computing and Recording Capital Credits









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.