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TO: ALL ATT INSTALLATION SUPPLIERS Date: 05/02/2016 EFFECTIVE DATE: 5 days from posted date or as per Supplier’s Contract Submitter’s Name: Dave Overdorf TP: TP76300 Subject: Grounding and Bonding Action: Add: Modification: Delete: Section: H Section Title: Grounding and Bonding Subsection: 1 Section Title: General Subsection: 1.2 Subsection Title: Definitions Prior to Change: Definitions The following terms are used throughout this section. Note: Where different terms are used for the same object, the ATT alternative names to which these terms apply are listed in brackets after the term. Alternating Current Equipment Grounding Conductor (ACEG) - The conductor used to connect the non–current-carrying metal parts of equipment, raceways, and other enclosures to the system grounded conductor, the grounding electrode conductor, or both, at the service equipment or at the source of a separately derived system. Bonding - The permanent joining of metallic sub-sections to form an electrically conductive path that will assure electrical continuity and the capacity to conduct safely any current likely to be imposed. Common Bonding Network (CBN) - A set of interconnected objects that has one or more connections to a ground reference. This network, created by a multitude of connections, helps to ensure that the objects are at essentially the same potential when fault current flows through them. Building steel, water pipes, vertical and horizontal equalizer conductors, metallic raceways, raised floor systems, equipment frames and other conductive objects form a common bonding network when bonded together by intentional and incidental connections. This term is now used throughout this Section in place of “integrated ground plane”. Carrier Communications Space Ground Bar (CO GRD bar) - A Carrier Communications Space ground bus bar that references the primary grounding system bus bar through the Vertical Riser. At least one of these bus bar