3 AAC 48.430 - Jurisdictional separations
(a) Except as set
out in (b) - (m) of this section, the Separations Manual, setting out the
standard procedure for separating telephone property costs, revenues, expenses,
taxes, and reserves, and as set out in 47 C.F.R. 36, as revised as of August 8,
1988, is adopted by reference. A telephone utility shall allocate its property
costs, revenues, expenses, taxes, and reserves in accordance with the
principles and procedures in 47 C.F.R. 36, except as set out in (b) - (m) of
this section, for use by the commission in establishing rates for telephone
utilities.
(b) Except as set out in
(e) and (f) of this section, "state toll" is substituted for "state" throughout
Part 36.
(c) Sections 36.1(b),
36.2(b)(3), and (e), 36.155(a), 36.331(b), and 37.377(a)(7) are modified by
substituting "state toll and local" for "state and interstate" and "interstate
or state."
(d)
47 C.F.R.
36.2(b)(3)(iv),
36.126(c)(3),
and
36.154(c)
- (f) are not adopted. The following applies:
(1) No portion of Category 4.13 or Category
1.3 costs, as defined by
47 C.F.R. 36.126(a)
and (b) and
36.154(a),
will be apportioned to state toll.
(2) Repealed 1/10/99.
(3) Repealed 1/10/99.
(4) Repealed 1/10/99.
(5) Repealed 1/10/99.
(6) Support received from essential network
support, as provided by 3 AAC 53.346, and from the network access fee, as
established under Section 109 of the Alaska Intrastate Interexchange
Access Charge Manual, adopted bv reference in
3
AAC 48.440, shall be offset against the local exchange
revenue requirement.
(e)
47 C.F.R.
36.125(b) - (f) are not
adopted. The following applies:
(1) Category
3 investment, as defined by
47 C.F.R.
36.125(a), is apportioned to
the state toll jurisdiction on the basis of the state toll dial equipment
minute (DEM) factor. The state toll DEM factor is the ratio of the state toll
DEM to total DEM.
(2) Category 3
investment, as defined by
47 C.F.R.
36.125(a), is apportioned to
the AUSF on the basis of weighted state toll DEM minus state toll DEM. Weighted
state toll DEM is equal to state toll DEM times in weighting factor set out in
(3) of this subsection.
(3) The
applicable weighting factor is as follows:
(A) in a local exchange carrier study area
with 10,000 or fewer access lines, the applicable weighting factor is 2.33
beginning January 1, 2019, 1.67 beginning January 1, 2020, and 1.0 beginning
January 1,2021 and thereafter.
(B)
in a local exchange carrier study area with more than 10,000 but fewer than
20,001 access lines, the applicable weighting factor is 2.0 beginning January
1, 2019,1.5 beginning January 1, 2020, and 1.0 bcgmning January 1, 2021 and
thereafter.
(C) in a local exchange
carrier study area with 20,001 or more access lines, the applicable factor is
1.0.
(4) (4)
Notwithstanding (1) - (3) of this subsection, the allocation factor to
intrastate toll and universal service is limited to a level that brings the
total allocation to interstate toll plus federal universal service support for
switching, intrastate toll, and the state universal service support for DEM
weighting to the percent of Category 3 investment determined for each focal
exchange company by the following formula:
.85 + (.05 X (A - B))
where:
A = the number of exchanges with toll free calling to less than 100 access lines
B = the total number of
(5) Reductions to intrastate factors
resulting from application of (3) and (4) of this subsection are applied first
to reduce the DEM weighting support portion of the state universal service
factor, with any residual used to reduce the intrastate toll DEM
factor.
(f) Sections
36.142(b) and 36.377(a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(iii), (a)(2)(v), and (a)(3)(vi) are
modified by substituting "local" or "local exchange " for "state" in the phrases
"state jurisdiction" and "state operations."
(g) Section 36.154 is modified by adding
"Subcategory 1.4, local private lines," in section 36.154(a) and including
subcategory 1.4 in the direct assignments provided in section
36.154(b).
(h) Section 36.181(a) is
modified by substituting "state toll operation" for "interstate
operation."
(i) Section
36.377(a)(1)(i), (a)(2)(v), and (a)(3)(vi) are modified by adding "local
private line expense" to the assignments provided in these sections.
(j) Section 36.377(a)(7) is modified by
substituting "revenues of" for "revenues deposited in."
(k) Subparts F and G of Part 36, sections
36.601 - 36.741, are not adopted.
(l) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
in this section
(1) "dial equipment minutes"
or "DEM" means the minutes of holding time of the originating and terminating
local switching equipment;
(2)
"holding time" means the time in which an item of telephone plant is in actual
use either by a customer or an operator; "holding time" includes on a completed
telephone call, conversation time as well as other time in use; "holding time"
does not include at local dial offices measured minutes that result from other
than customer attempts to place calls as evidenced by the dialing of at least
one digit.
Notes
A copy of the Separations Manual, 47 C.F.R. 36, as
amended through August 8, 1988, is available for inspection at the offices of
the Regulatory
Under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6) and
AS
01.05.031(b)(7), the
regulations attorney added subsec. (k) to 3 AAC 48.430 as of Register 112,
January 1990. The former Alaska Public Utilities
Authority:AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.401
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