Sec. 69.601  Exchange carrier association.

    (a) An association shall be established in order to prepare and file 
access charge tariffs on behalf of all telephone companies that do not 
file separate tariffs or concur in a joint access tariff of another 
telephone company for all access elements.
    (b) All telephone companies that participate in the distribution of 
Carrier Common Line revenue requirement, pay long term support to 
association Common Line tariff participants, or receive payments from 
the transitional support fund administered by the association shall be 
deemed to be members of the association.
    (c) All data submissions to the association required by this title 
shall be accompanied by the following certification statement signed by 
the officer or employee responsible for the overall preparation for the 
data submission:

                              Certification

    I am (title of certifying officer or employee). I hereby certify 
that I have overall responsibility for the preparation of all data in 
the attached data submission for (name of carrier) and that I am 
authorized to execute this certification. Based on information known to 
me or provided to me by employees responsible for the preparation of the 
data in this submission, I hereby certify that the data have been 
examined and reviewed and are complete, accurate, and consistent with 
the rules of the Federal Communications Commission.
 Date:__________________________________________________________________

 Name:__________________________________________________________________

 Title:_________________________________________________________________

(Persons making willful false statements in this data submission can be 
punished by fine or imprisonment under the provisions of the U.S. Code, 
Title 18, Section ).

[48 1001 FR 10358 , Mar. 11, 1983, as amended at  52 FR 21542 , June 8, 1987;  60 FR 19530 , Apr. 19, 1995]