[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: 47CFR69.158]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 69_ACCESS CHARGES--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C_Computation of Charges for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers
 
Sec.  69.158  Universal service end user charges.

    To the extent the company makes contributions to the Universal 
Service Support Mechanisms pursuant to Sec. Sec.  54.706 and 54.709 of 
this chapter and the local exchange carrier seeks to recover some or all 
of the amount of such contribution, the local exchange carrier shall 
recover those contributions through a charge to end users other than 
Lifeline users. These contributions are not a part of any price cap 
baskets, and the charge to recover

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these contributions is not part of any other element established 
pursuant to part 69. Such a charge may be assessed on a per-line basis 
or as a percentage of interstate retail revenues, and at the option of 
the local exchange carrier it may be combined for billing purposes with 
other end user retail rate elements. A local exchange carrier opting to 
assess the Universal Service end-user rate element on a per-line basis 
may apply that charge using the ``equivalency'' relationships 
established for the multi-line business PICC for Primary Rate ISDN 
service, as per Sec.  69.153(d), and for Centrex lines, as per Sec.  
69.153(e).

[65 FR 38704, June 21, 2000; 65 FR 57744, Sept. 26, 2000]