The increase of underground telephone cable installation in the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) Telephone Program, the Independent Telephone Industry, and the Bell System in the past several years demands comprehensive and reliable information in the area of underground corrosion. To provide this practical environmental underground corrosion data on accepted and experimental telephone cable shielding materials, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) designed a six-year underground corrosion program.

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