§ 69.307   General support facilities.

   (a) General purpose computer investment used in the provision of the
   Line Information Database sub-element at § 69.120(b) shall be assigned
   to that sub-element.

   (b) General purpose computer investment used in the provision of the
   billing name and address element at § 69.128 shall be assigned to that
   element.

   (c)(1) Until June 30, 2002, for all local exchange carriers not subject
   to price cap regulation and for other carriers that acquire all of the
   billing and collection services that they provide to interexchange
   carriers from unregulated affiliates through affiliate transactions,
   from unaffiliated third parties, or from both of these sources, all
   other General Support Facilities investments shall be apportioned among
   the interexchange category, the billing and collection category, and
   Common Line, Local Switching, Information, Transport, and Special
   Access elements on the basis of Central Office Equipment, Information
   Origination/Termination Equipment, and Cable and Wire Facilities,
   combined.

   (2) Beginning July 1, 2002, for all local exchange carriers that
   acquire all of the billing and collection services that they provide to
   interexchange carriers from unregulated affiliates through affiliate
   transactions, from unaffiliated third parties, or from both of these
   sources, all other General Support Facilities investments shall be
   apportioned among the interexchange category, the billing and
   collection category, and Common Line, Local Switching, Information,
   Transport, and Special Access elements on the basis of Central Office
   Equipment, Information Origination/Termination Equipment, and Cable and
   Wire Facilities, combined.

   (d) For local exchange carriers subject to price cap regulation and not
   covered by Section 69.307(c), a portion of General purpose computer
   investment (Account 2124), investment in Land (Account 2111), Buildings
   (Account 2121), and Office equipment (Account 2123) shall be
   apportioned to the billing and collection category on the basis of the
   Big Three Expense Factors allocator, defined in Section 69.2 of this
   Part, modified to exclude expenses that are apportioned on the basis of
   allocators that include General Support Facilities investment. The
   remaining portion of investment in these four accounts together with
   all other General Support Facilities investments shall be apportioned
   among the interexchange category, the billing and collection category,
   and Common Line, Local Switching, Information, Transport, and Special
   Access Elements on the basis of Central Office Equipment, Information
   Origination/Termination Equipment, and Cable and Wire Facilities,
   combined.

   (e) Beginning July 1, 2002, for non-price cap local exchange carriers
   not covered by § 69.307(c)(2), a portion of General purpose computer
   investment shall be apportioned to the billing and collection category
   on the basis of the Big Three Expense Factors allocator, defined in
   § 69.2, modified to exclude expenses that are apportioned on the basis
   of allocators that include General Support Facilities investment. The
   remaining General Support Facilities investments shall be apportioned
   among the interexchange category, the billing and collection category,
   and Common Line, Local Switching, Information, Transport, and Special
   Access Elements on the basis of Central Office Equipment, Information
   Origination/Termination Equipment, and Cable and Wire Facilities,
   combined.

   [ 58 FR 30995 , May 28, 1993, as amended at  58 FR 36145 , July 6, 1993;  62 FR 31939 , June 11, 1997;  62 FR 40464 , July 29, 1997;  62 FR 65622 , Dec.
   15, 1997;  66 FR 59732 , Nov. 30, 2001]

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