Goto Section: 36.604 | 36.611 | Table of Contents
FCC 36.605
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 36.605 Calculation of safety net additive.
(a) “Safety net additive support.” Beginning January 1, 2012, only
those local exchange carriers that qualified in 2010 or earlier, based
on 2009 or prior year costs, shall be eligible to receive safety net
additive pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section. Local exchange
carriers shall not receive safety net additive for growth of
Telecommunications Plant in Service in 2011, as compared to 2010. A
local exchange carrier qualifying for safety net additive shall no
longer receive safety net additive after January 1, 2012 unless the
carrier's realized total growth in Telecommunications Plant in Service
was more than 14 percent during the qualifying period, defined as 2010
or earlier, pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section. A local exchange
carrier qualifying for safety net additive that fails to meet the
requirements set forth in the preceding sentence will receive 50
percent of the safety net additive that it otherwise would have
received pursuant to this rule in 2012 and will cease to receive safety
net additive in 2013 and thereafter.
(b) Calculation of safety net additive support for companies that
qualified prior to 2011: Safety net additive support is equal to the
amount of capped support calculated pursuant to this subpart F in the
qualifying year minus the amount of support in the year prior to
qualifying for support subtracted from the difference between the
uncapped expense adjustment for the study area in the qualifying year
minus the uncapped expense adjustment in the year prior to qualifying
for support as shown in the following equation: Safety net additive
support = (Uncapped support in the qualifying year—Uncapped support in
the base year)—(Capped support in the qualifying year—Amount of support
received in the base year).
(c) Operation of safety net additive support for companies that
qualified prior to 2011: (1) In any year in which the total carrier
loop cost expense adjustment is limited by the provisions of § 36.603 a
rate-of-return incumbent local exchange carrier, as set forth in
§ 36.601(a) of this subpart, shall receive safety net additive support
as calculated in paragraph (b) of this section, if in any study area,
the rural incumbent local exchange carrier realizes growth in end of
period Telecommunications Plant in Service (TPIS), as prescribed in
§ 32.2001 of this chapter, on a per loop basis, of at least 14 percent
more than the study area's TPIS per loop investment at the end of the
prior period.
(2) If paragraph (c)(1) of this section is met, the rural incumbent
local exchange carrier must notify the Administrator; failure to
properly notify the Administrator of eligibility shall result in
disqualification of that study area for safety net additive, requiring
the rural incumbent local exchange carrier to again meet the
eligibility requirements in paragraph (c)(1) of this section for that
study area in a subsequent period.
(3) Upon completion of verification by the Administrator that the study
area meets the stated criterion in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) of this
section, the Administrator shall:
(i) Pay to any qualifying rural telephone company, safety net additive
support for the qualifying study area in accordance with the
calculation set forth in paragraph (b) of this section; and
(ii) Continue to pay safety net additive support in any of the four
succeeding years in which the total carrier loop expense adjustment is
limited by the provisions of § 36.603. Safety net additive support in
the succeeding four years shall be the lesser of:
(A) The sum of capped support and the safety net additive support
received in the qualifying year; or
(B) The rural telephone company's uncapped support.
[ 66 FR 30086 , June 5, 2001, as amended at 66 FR 65856 , Dec. 21, 2001;
76 FR 73854 , Nov. 29, 2011]
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Goto Year: 2011 |
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