[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR54.303]

[Page 120-121]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 54_UNIVERSAL SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart D_Universal Service Support for High Cost Areas
 
Sec.  54.303  Long term support.

    (a) Beginning January 1, 1998, an eligible telecommunications 
carrier that participates in the association Common Line pool shall 
receive Long Term Support.
    (b) Long Term Support shall be calculated as prescribed in this 
paragraph.
    (1) To calculate the unadjusted base-level of Long Term Support for 
1998, the Administrator shall calculate the difference between the 
projected Common Line revenue requirement of association Common Line 
tariff participants projected to be recovered in 1997 and the sum of end 
user common line charges and the 1997 projected revenue recovered by the 
association Carrier Common Line charge as calculated pursuant to Sec.  
69.105(b)(2) of this chapter.

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    (2) To calculate Long Term Support for calendar year 1998, the 
Administrator shall adjust the base-level of Long Term Support 
calculated in paragraph (b)(1) of this section to reflect the annual 
percentage change in the actual nationwide average unseparated loop cost 
per working loop as filed by the Administrator in the previous calendar 
year, pursuant to Sec.  36.622 of this chapter.
    (3) To calculate Long Term Support for calendar year 1999, the 
Administrator shall adjust the level of support calculated in paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section to reflect the annual percentage change in the 
actual nationwide average unseparated loop cost per working loop as 
filed by the Administrator in the previous calendar year, pursuant to 
Sec.  36.622 of this chapter.
    (4) Beginning January 1, 2000, the Administrator shall calculate 
Long Term Support annually by adjusting the previous year's level of 
support to reflect the annual percentage change in the Department of 
Commerce's Gross Domestic Product-Chained Price Index (GDP-CPI).
    (5)(i) Beginning July 1, 2002, each carrier will be eligible to 
receive LTS equal to the lesser of:
    (A) The LTS for which the carrier would be eligible pursuant to 
paragraph (b)(4) of this section, or
    (B) Its common line revenue requirement as calculated in accordance 
with part 69 of this chapter, minus:
    (1) The study area revenues obtained from end-user common line 
charges at their allowable maximum as determined by Sec. Sec.  69.104(n) 
and 69.104(o) of this chapter;
    (2) The carrier common line charge revenues to be phased out 
pursuant to Sec.  69.105 of this chapter;
    (3) The special access surcharges pursuant to Sec.  69.114 of this 
chapter; and
    (4) The line port costs in excess of basic analog service pursuant 
to Sec.  69.130 of this chapter.
    (ii) Under no circumstance shall a carrier have LTS that is less 
than zero.
    (iii) In calculating an LTS amount pursuant to paragraph 
(b)(5)(i)(B) of this section, the Administrator shall use data filed 
pursuant to Sec.  54.903 of this chapter.

[63 FR 2128, Jan. 13, 1998; 63 FR 33586, June 19, 1998, as amended at 67 
FR 42506, June 24, 2002; 67 FR 70702, Nov. 26, 2002]