Sec.  69.406   Local business office expenses in Account 6620.

   (a) Local business office expenses shall be assigned as follows:

   (1)  End  user  service  order  processing  expenses  attributable  to
   presubscription shall be apportioned among the Common Line, Switching, and
   Transport elements in the same proportion as the investment apportioned to
   those elements pursuant to  Sec. 69.309.

   (2) End user service order processing, payment and collection, and billing
   inquiry expenses attributable to the company's own interstate private line
   and special access service shall be assigned to the Special Access element.

   (3) End user service order processing, payment and collection, and billing
   inquiry expenses attributable to interstate private line service offered by
   an interexhange carrier shall be assigned to the billing and collection
   category.

   (4) End user service order processing, payment and collection, and billing
   inquiry expenses attributable to the company's own interstate message toll
   service shall be assigned to the interexchange category. End user service
   order processing, payment and collection, and billing inquiry expenses
   attributable to interstate message toll service offered by an interexchange
   carrier shall be assigned to the billing and collection category. End user
   payment and collection and billing inquiry expenses attributable to End User
   Common Line access billing shall be assigned to the Common Line element.

   (5) End user service order processing, payment and collection, and billing
   inquiry  expenses attributable to TWX service shall be assigned to the
   Special Access element.

   (6) Interexchange carrier service order processing, payment and collection,
   and billing inquiry expenses attributable to private lines and special
   access shall be assigned to the Special Access element.

   (7) Interexchange carrier service order processing, payment and collection,
   and billing inquiry expenses attributable to interstate switched access and
   message toll, shall be apportioned among the Common Line, Local Switching
   and Transport elements in the same proportion as the investment apportioned
   to those elements pursuant to  Sec. 69.309.

   (8) Interexchange carrier service order processing, payment and collection,
   and billing inquiry expenses attributable to billing and collection service
   shall be assigned to the billing and collection category.

   [ 52 FR 37313 , Oct. 6, 1987, as amended at  62 FR 31939 , June 11, 1997]