HomeMy WebLinkAbout991020_cc.doc DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER HANSEN
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
MYRNA WALTERS
STEPHANIE MILLER
DON HOWELL
TONYA CLARK
LYNN ANDERSON
JOE CUSICK
BIRDELLE BROWN
BEVERLY BARKER
RON LAW
WORKING FILE
FROM: CHERI C. COPSEY
DATE: OCTOBER 29, 1999
RE: PROPOSED REVISIONS TO RULE 106, IDAPA 31.46.01.106; DOCKET NO. 31 4601 9901
Staff proposed revision to Rule 106 of the Universal Service Fund Rules. Idaho Code § 62-610 clearly authorizes the rates for one-party single-line residence and business service for USF recipients to be higher than 125% of the weighted statewide average. The present rule seems to be inconsistent and seems to imply that the Commission must revise rates downward to equal the new statewide average in order for the participating companies to continue to receive funding.
In the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, interested persons were asked to submit comments no later than October 27, 1999. No comments were filed.
Commission Decision:
Does the Commission wish to adopt the proposed rule as its pending rule and forward the rule for legislative review?
___________________________
Cheri C. Copsey
Staff: Birdelle Brown
M:46-01-106_pend_decmem
Idaho Code § 62-610(4):
(4) Distributions from the fund shall be available to the individual eligible telecommunications carrier in Idaho providing basic local exchange service to meet residual revenue requirements remaining after deducting the revenue generated by all intrastate telecommunication services, from the eligible telecommunications carrier's total intrastate telecommunication service revenue requirement as determined by the commission, including local exchange priced at one hundred twenty five percent (125%) or more of the weighted statewide average and MTS/WATS access services priced at one hundred percent (100%) or more of the statewide average and contributions from the federal universal service fund. The commission shall provide, by order, for not less than seventy five percent (75%) nor more than one hundred percent (100%) of the residual revenue requirement of the individual eligible telecommunications carrier to be funded by the universal service fund. The commission shall retain its authority to approve rate design consistent with this subsection, but notwithstanding such authority, the commission shall supply full funding for any commission determined revenue requirement. Distributions from the fund shall be made monthly.
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