[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 246 (Friday, December 21, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 65856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31364]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 36


Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Correcting amendment.

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SUMMARY: This document contains corrections to the final regulations in 
the Fourteenth Report and Order, which were published in the Federal 
Register of Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 66 FR 30080. Specifically, this 
correction revises the language in section 36.605(c)(3)(ii) to make it 
clear.

DATES: Effective January 22, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg Guice, Attorney, Common Carrier 
Bureau, Accounting Policy Division, (202) 418-0095.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's 
Twenty-Third Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket No. 96-45 released 
on July 11, 2001. The full text of this document is available for 
public inspection during regular business hours in the FCC Reference 
Center, Room CY-A257, 445 Twelfth Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., 
20554.

I. Introduction

    1. In this document, the Commission makes a correction to section 
36.605(c)(3)(ii) of its rules adopted in the Fourteenth Report and 
Order, 66 FR 30080, June 5, 2001. The correction concerns the 
calculation of safety net additive support in the years following 
qualification for such support and is necessary to make the rule 
consistent with the text of the underlying order. Specifically, this 
correction revises the language in section 36.605(c)(3)(ii) to make it 
clear that rural telephone companies receive the lesser of either: (1) 
the sum of capped support and the safety net additive support in each 
year or (2) uncapped support in each year when the cap is not 
triggered.

Need for Correction

    As published, the final regulations contain errors which may prove 
to be misleading and need to be clarified.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 36

    Communications common carriers, Telephone.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.

    Accordingly, 47 CFR part 36 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendment:

PART 36--JURISDICTIONAL SEPARATIONS

    1. The authority citation for part 36 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 47 U.S.C. Secs. 151-154, 201-205, 218-220, 254, 
303(r), 403, 405, and 410.


    2. Section 36.605(c)(3)(ii) is revised to read as follows:


Sec. 36.605  Calculation of safety net additive.

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    (c) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (ii) Continue to pay safety net additive support in any of the four 
succeeding years in which the total carrier loop expense adjustment is 
limited by the provisions of Sec. 36.603. Safety net additive support 
in the succeeding four years shall be the lesser of:
    (A) The sum of capped support and the safety net additive support 
received in the qualifying year;
    or
    (B) The rural telephone company's uncapped support.
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[FR Doc. 01-31364 Filed 12-20-01; 8:45 am]
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