Sec. 36.611  Submission of information to the National Exchange Carrier 
          Association (NECA).

    In order to allow determination of the study areas that are entitled 
to an expense adjustment, each incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) 
must provide the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) 
(established pursuant to part 69 of this chapter) with the information 
listed below for each of its study areas. This information is to be 
filed with the Association by July 31st of each year. The information 
filed on July 31st of each year will be used in the jurisdictional 
allocations underlying the cost support data for the access charge 
tariffs to be filed the following October. An incumbent local exchange 
carrier is defined as a carrier that meets the definition of an 
``incumbent local exchange carrier'' in Sec. 51.5 of this chapter.
    (a) Unseparated, i.e., state and interstate, gross plant investment 
in Exchange Line Cable and Wire Facilities (C&WF) Subcategory 1.3 and 
Exchange Line Central Office (CO) Circuit Equipment Category 4.13. This 
amount shall be calculated as of December 31st of the calendar year 
preceding each July 31st filing.
    (b) Unseparated accumulated depreciation and noncurrent deferred 
federal income taxes, attributable to Exchange Line C&WF Subcategory 1.3 
investment, and Exchange Line CO Circuit Equipment Category 4.13 
investment. These amounts shall be calculated as of December 31st of the 
calendar year preceding each July 31st filing, and shall be stated 
separately.
    (c) Unseparated depreciation expense attributable to Exchange Line 
C&WF Subcategory 1.3 investment, and Exchange Line CO Circuit Equipment 
Category 4.13 investment. This amount shall be the actual depreciation 
expense for the calendar year preceding each July 31st filing.
    (d) Unseparated maintenance expense attributable to Exchange Line 
C&WF Subcategory 1.3 investment and Exchange Line CO Circuit Equipment 
Category 4.113 investment. This amount shall be the actual repair 
expense for the calendar year preceding each July 31st filing.
    (e) Unseparated corporate operations expenses, operating taxes, and 
the benefits and rent proportions of operating expenses. The amount for 
each of these categories of expense shall be the actual amount for that 
expense for the calendar year preceding each July 31st filing. The 
amount for each category of expense listed shall be stated separately.
    (f) Unseparated gross telecommunications plant investment. This 
amount shall be calculated as of December 31st of the calendar year 
preceding each July 31st filing.
    (g) Unseparated accumulated depreciation and noncurrent deferred 
federal income taxes attributable to local unseparated 
telecommunications plant investment. This amount shall be calculated as 
of December 31st of the calendar year preceding each July 31st filing.
    (h) The number of working loops for each study area. For universal 
service support purposes, working loops are defined as the number of 
working Exchange Line C&WF loops used jointly for exchange and message 
telecommunications service, including C&WF subscriber lines associated 
with pay telephones in C&WF Category 1, but excluding WATS closed end 
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and TWX service. This figure shall be calculated as of December 31st of 
the calendar year preceding each July 31st filing.
[ 62 FR 32947 , June 17, 1997]