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GONS'.,'RUCT'..?iC, A CATV SYSTEM - PRE-ENGi..';EI':RING APD MAKEREADY. Immediately after the awarding of a CATV franchise the Cable Company must ,nitiate a request for attachment agree- ments: that xS an agreement with the owners of existing itity poles to rent space on those poles for the attachment of CATV cables- The Cable Company requests the Utility to prepare and submit the attachment agreement which details the terms and conditions by whict~ the utility i_~ willing to lease space. When the u~ility submits its conditions the Cable Firm either accepts or rejects the agreement. If it accepts then the "mal,,eready engineering ridoout" is ready to be scheduled. "Hakeready" simply meai~s mahing the poles ready to accept the CATV cables - a deceptively s~mple sounding definition. Makeready entails the physical examination' of thousands of poles, each of which must be described and documented. Tt~e pole is inspected to see if adequate clear- ante exists and if it does not.rearrangement construction must be scheduled and completed to provide for the CATV cable. There are about 40 poles per mile of cable system. The 375 miles of strand mapping therefore represents about 15,OOO p~tential rearrangements. At leasc 2000 of those poles must be clear before the Cable construction may begin. At this .stage of development the CATV Company must base its construction progress projections directly 'on the est- imated makeready construction by the uti lities. Judgi.~g from past experience 1 would estimate that once alt the attachment agreements have been executed and the rideout begf.ns it will take about 120 days for the required number of poles to be cleared ~o a]low cable construction to begin. All ~akeready consnrnction is, of course, paid for by the CATV Company on an actual cost basis so that space on the poles ~.~ill be available to rent.