[Federal Register: June 30, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 125)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 54
[FCC 02-10]
Establishment of the Media Bureau, the Wireline Competition
Bureau and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Reorganization
of the International Bureau, and Other Organizational Changes
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Correcting amendments.
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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the final regulation
Part 54, which was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, March
21, 2002, (67 FR 13216). This document will correct two words in Sec.
54.709(a)(3) of the Commission rules. The regulation relates to the
computations of required contributions to universal service support
mechanisms in Sec. 54.709(a)(3).
DATES: Effective June 30, 2003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Law Hsu, Deputy Chief, Wireline
Competition Bureau, Telecommunications Access Policy Division, (202)
418-7400.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Part 54 rules are issued pursuant to the Communications Act of
1934, as amended. The purpose of the part 54 rules is to implement
section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.
254. The final regulation that is subject to the correction deals with
Sec. 54.709 and how carriers are to compute their required
contributions to the universal service support mechanism.
Need for Correction
As published, the final regulation contains an error which needs to
be corrected.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR part 54
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Telecommunications,
Telephone.
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Accordingly, 47 CFR part 54 is corrected by making the following
correcting amendments:
PART 54--UNIVERSAL SERVICE
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1. The authority citation for part 54 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 1, 4(i), 201, 205, 214, and 254 unless
otherwise noted.
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2. Revise paragraph (a)(3) of Sec. 54.303 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.709 Computations of required contributions to universal
service support mechanisms.
(a) * * *
(1) * * *
(2) * * *
(3) Total projected expenses for the federal universal service
support mechanisms for each quarter must be approved by the Commission
before they are used to calculate the quarterly contribution factor and
individual contributions. For each quarter, the Administrator must
submit its projections of demand for the federal universal service
support mechanisms for high-cost areas, low-income consumers, schools
and libraries, and rural health care providers, respectively, and the
basis for those projections, to the Commission and the Wireline
Competition Bureau at least sixty (60) calendar days prior to the start
of that quarter. For each quarter, the Administrator must submit its
projections of administrative expenses for the high-cost mechanism, the
low-income mechanism, the schools and libraries mechanism and the rural
health care mechanism and the basis for those projections to the
Commission and the Wireline Competition Bureau at least sixty (60)
calendar days prior to the start of that quarter. Based on data
submitted to the Administrator on the Telecommunications Reporting
Worksheets, the Administrator must submit the total contribution base
to the Wireline Competition Bureau at least thirty (30) days before the
start of each quarter. The projections of demand and administrative
expenses and the contribution factor shall be announced by the
Commission in a public notice and shall be made available on the
Commission's website. The Commission reserves the right to set
projections of demand and administrative expenses at amounts that the
Commission determines will serve the public interest at any time within
the fourteen-day period following release of the Commission's public
notice. If the Commission take no action within fourteen (14) days of
the date of release of the public notice announcing the projections of
demand and administrative expenses, the projections of demand and
administrative expenses, and the contribution factor shall be deemed
approved by the Commission. Except as provided in Sec. 54.706(c), the
Administrator shall apply the quarterly contribution factor, once
approved by the Commission, to contributor's interstate and
international end-user telecommunications revenues to calculate the
amount of individual contributions.
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Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-16487 Filed 6-27-03; 8:45 am]
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