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Features of the original document layout such as columns, tables, line and letter spacing, pagination, and margins will not be preserved in the text version. Following the release of the Advanced Services Order, CLECs applied for cageless collocation arrangements in various GTE central offices nationwide. The Enforcement Bureau commenced an informal investigation into these matters on February 25, 2000. The Merger Order provides that, in the event GTE fails to meet the performance requirements during specified time periods after 270 days following the merger closing date, it will be required to make voluntary payments to the United States Treasury. As a matter of corporate policy, GTE represents that it is committed to full compliance with the Commission's interconnection and collocation requirements as effective and further represents that the Company opposes noncompliance with such competitive provisions by any telecommunications carrier.