Sec. 51.713  Bill-and-keep arrangements for reciprocal compensation.

    (a) For purposes of this subpart, bill-and-keep arrangements are 
those in which neither of the two interconnecting carriers charges the 
other for the termination of local telecommunications traffic that 
originates on the other carrier's network.
    (b) A state commission may impose bill-and-keep arrangements if the 
state commission determines that the amount of local telecommunications 
traffic from one network to the other is roughly balanced with the 
amount of local telecommunications traffic flowing in the opposite 
direction, and is expected to remain so, and no showing has been made 
pursuant to Sec. 51.711(b).
    (c) Nothing in this section precludes a state commission from 
presuming that the amount of local telecommunications traffic from one 
network to the other is roughly balanced with the amount of local 
telecommunications traffic flowing in the opposite direction and is 
expected to remain so, unless a party rebuts such a presumption.