[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR36.191]

[Page 476-477]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 36_JURISDICTIONAL SEPARATIONS PROCEDURES; STANDARD PROCEDURES FOR \
 
                  Subpart B_Telecommunications Property
 
Sec. 36.191  Equal access equipment.

    (a) Equal access investment includes only initial incremental 
expenditures for hardware and other equipment related directly to the 
provision of equal access which would not be required to upgrade the 
capabilities of the office involved absent the provision of equal 
access. Equal access investment is limited to such expenditures for 
converting central offices which serve competitive interexchange 
carriers or where there has been a bona fide request for conversion to 
equal access.
    (b) Equal access investment is first segregated from all other 
amounts in the primary accounts.
    (c) The equal access investment determined in this manner is 
allocated between the jurisdictions on the basis of relative state and 
interstate equal access traffic including interstate interLATA equal 
access traffic, intrastate interLATA equal access traffic, and BOC 
interstate corridor toll traffic

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as well as AT&T and OCC intraLATA equal access usage. Local exchange 
traffic and BOC intraLATA toll traffic is excluded. In the case of 
independent telephone companies, intrastate toll service provided by the 
independent local exchange company is excluded in determining intrastate 
usage, but intrastate toll service provided by long distance carriers 
affiliated with the local exchange company is included.
    (d) Effective July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2006, all study areas 
shall apportion Equal Access Equipment, as specified in Sec. 36.191(a), 
among the jurisdictions using the relative state and interstate equal 
access traffic, as specified in Sec. 36.191(c), for the twelve month 
period ending December 31, 2000.

[52 FR 17229, May 6, 1987, as amended at 53 FR 33012, Aug. 29, 1988; 66 
FR 33206, June 21, 2001]