Shared Resources

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Arizona Department of Transportation
Shared Resources For Telecommunications Project
Update February 22, 2001
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Shared Resources for Telecommunications

• Timeline
• Changes in Project Direction
• Contract/Permit/Policy
• Department Assets
• Significant Events
• Construction and Technology

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Time Line
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Shared Resources Project
Construction Design Starts
Permit Application
Contract Negotiations
Permit Contract - Valuation
Request for Proposal
Engineering Technical Plan
Stakeholder Needs Analysis
Legal Authority to Proceed
Project Plan - Start
Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2001 Dec Nov
Oct Sep Aug July June 2000
Policy Statement for Telecommunications Utility
Steering Committee Organized
Landowner Agency Summit
Policy Changes
Inter Tribal Counsel of Arizona
Laws Amended
Significant Events
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Changes in Project Direction
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Changes in Project Direction

• Lead Agency
• Summit Meeting
• Contract/Permit/Policy
• More Direct Involvement
• Permit, Utilities and Railroad, Right of Way,
  etc.
• SB1272

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Contract/Permit/Policy
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Permit/Contract Process

• Wireline Policy Statement
• for Telecommunications Utility
• Contract
• Asset

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New Policy Statement Highlights

• Telecom Utility Issues
• Reduce Inconvenience to Traveling Public
• Follow Utility Guide
• Allow Permit Techs to Issue Permits for
  Longitudinal Access

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Contract Highlights

• Specific to Project
• Encourages Single Trench Design
• Encourages Excess Capacity
• Follows FHWA Guidelines
• Does Not Contradict Law, Policy, Guidelines

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Department Assets

• Identifies what ADOT receives
• Parallels with a valuation process
• Both as formal documents

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SignificantEvents
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Significant Events

• Project Steering Committee Formed
• Landholder Agency Summit
• Inter Tribal Counsel Association
• ADOT District Permit Supervisors, Utility,
  Right-of-Way, TIR

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Government Participation

• GITA
• Commerce
• League of Cities Towns
• TOPAZ/ATS
• ADOT TIR
• ADOT ITS
• CANAMEX

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ConstructionTechnology
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Anticipated Construction Priority

• I-10 NM to Phoenix
• I-10 Phoenix to CA
• I-8, Casa Grande to Yuma
• I-17, Phoenix to Flagstaff
• I-40, NM border to CA border

• 6. CANAMEX
• I-19 Nogales to Tucson
• US-60, US-93 Phoenix to Kingman
• US-93 Kingman to Hover Dam
• SR-87, Phoenix to Payson
• Phoenix Loops

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Potential Companies

• OSP Developers
• Carriers Carrier
• Long Haul Providers
• Local Service Providers

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Interested Companies

• American Fiber Systems
• Broadwing
• Digital Teleport, Inc.
• Williams Communications
• Level 3 Communications
• Valley Telephone
• Gila River Telecom
• Cox Communications
• Time Warner

• Qwest
• Enron Broadband Services
• WorldCom
• McLeodUSA
• ATT
• Adelphia
• 360networks
• AERIE Networks Company

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New Technology

• 25 times the capacity of older technology
• Demand for fiber is escalating at more than 200
  per year
• ROW is limited and harder to get

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