Sec. 63.504  Contents of applications to close a public toll station 
          where no other such toll station of the applicant in the 
          community will continue service and where telephone toll 
          service is not otherwise available to the public through a 
          telephone exchange connected with the toll lines of a carrier.

    The application shall contain:
    (a) The name and address of each applicant;
    (b) The name, title, and post office address of the officer to whom 
correspondence concerning the application is to be addressed;
    (c) Nature of proposed discontinuance, reduction, or impairment;
    (d) Identification of community or part of community involved and 
date on which applicant desires to make proposed discontinuance, 
reduction, or impairment effective; if for a temporary period only, 
indicate the approximate period for which authorization is desired;
    (e) Proposed new tariff listing, if any, and difference, if any, 
between present charges to the public and charges for the service to be 
substituted, if any;

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    (f) Description of the service area affected including population 
and general character of business of the community;
    (g) Name of other carrier or carriers, if any, which will provide 
toll station service in the community;
    (h) Statement of the reasons for proposed discontinuance, reduction, 
or impairment;
    (i) Statement of the factors showing that neither present nor future 
public convenience and necessity would be adversely affected by the 
granting of the application;
    (j) Description of any previous discontinuance, reduction, or 
impairment of service to the community affected by the application, 
which has been made by the applicant during the 12 months preceding 
filing of application, and statement of any present plans for future 
discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service to such community;
    (k) Description of the service involved, including a statement of 
the number of toll telephone messages or telegraph messages sent-paid 
and received-collect, and the revenues from such traffic, in connection 
with the service proposed to be discontinued for each of the past 6 
months; and, if the volume of such traffic handled in the area has 
decreased during recent years, the reasons therefor.