In this task, you are given text for US Congressional and California state bills, your task is to generate a summary for this bill.

Example Input: SECTION 1. EXTENDED PHASE-IN OF THE INPATIENT REHABILITATION FACILITY 
              CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA.

    (a) In General.--Section 5005 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``apply the applicable 
        percent specified in subsection (b)'' and inserting ``require a 
        compliance rate that is no greater than the 60 percent 
        compliance rate that became effective for cost reporting 
        periods beginning on or after July 1, 2006''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Continued Use of Comorbidities.--For cost reporting periods 
beginning on or after July 1, 2008, the Secretary shall include 
patients with comorbidities as described in section 412.23(b)(2)(i) of 
title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect as of January 1, 
2007), in the inpatient population that counts towards the percent 
specified in subsection (a).''.
    (b) Medical Necessity Criteria for Beneficiaries Served in 
Rehabilitation Hospitals and Units.--The Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services and Medicare fiscal intermediaries, Medicare 
administrative contractors, recovery audit contractors, and other 
government agents shall use and apply the criteria established in HCFA 
Ruling 85-2, as issued on July 31, 1985 (50 Fed. Reg. 31040), as the 
sole standard for determining the medical necessity of services 
provided by inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units to Medicare 
beneficiaries under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.

SEC. 2. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CLASSIFYING INPATIENT REHABILITATION 
              HOSPITALS AND UNITS.

    (a) Report to Congress.--Not later than 12 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
in consultation with physicians, administrators of inpatient 
rehabilitation and acute care hospitals, Medicare beneficiaries, and 
trade organizations representing inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and 
units, shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report 
that includes--
            (1) an examination of the impact of the 75 percent rule on 
        the Medicare program and the specific impact of the rule on 
        Medicare beneficiaries; and
            (2) alternatives to the 75 percent rule policy for 
        determining exclusion criteria for inpatient rehabilitation 
        hospital and unit designation under the Medicare program, 
        including determining clinical appropriateness of inpatient 
        rehabilitation hospital and unit admissions, and including 
        alternative criteria based solely on a measure of a patient's 
        functional status which is independent of diagnosis.
For the purposes of this section, the term ``75 percent rule'' means 
the requirement of section 412.23(b)(2) of title 42, Code of Federal 
Regulations, that 75 percent of the patients of a rehabilitation 
hospital or converted rehabilitation unit are in 1 or more of 13 listed 
treatment categories.
    (b) Considerations.--In developing the report described in 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall include the following:
            (1) The effect of the 75 percent rule on access to 
        inpatient hospital rehabilitation care by Medicare 
        beneficiaries and the effectiveness of care available to such 
        beneficiaries in other health care settings.
            (2) A comparative analysis of the overall Medicare system 
        costs, including Medicare expenditures to acute care hospitals, 
        home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and long-term 
        care hospitals, resulting from implementation of the 75 percent 
        rule.
            (3) A analysis that compares the quality, cost, and patient 
        outcomes of inpatient rehabilitation services among different 
        post-acute care settings, including whether the Medicare 
        program and Medicare beneficiaries may incur higher costs of 
        care for the entire episode of illness because of factors such 
        as--
                    (A) readmissions to acute care hospitals that could 
                have been avoided absent the 75 percent rule; or
                    (B) extended lengths of stay in post-acute settings 
                other than a rehabilitation hospital or unit because 
                beneficiaries were denied access to care in such a 
                hospital or unit due to the 75 percent rule.

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL CORRECTION FOR INPATIENT REHABILITATION HOSPITALS AND 
              UNITS NOMENCLATURE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1886(j) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395ww(j)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``(in this subsection 
        referred to as a `rehabilitation facility'), other than a 
        facility'' and inserting ``other than a hospital or unit'';
            (2) by striking ``rehabilitation facility'' and 
        ``facility'' and inserting ``inpatient rehabilitation hospital 
        or a rehabilitation unit'' and ``hospital or unit'', 
        respectively, each place it appears;
            (3) by striking ``rehabilitation facilities'' and inserting 
        ``inpatient rehabilitation hospitals or rehabilitation units'' 
        each place it appears; and
            (4) in paragraph (6), by striking ``rehabilitation 
        facilities' costs'' and inserting ``costs of inpatient 
        rehabilitation hospitals or rehabilitation units''.
    (b) Use of the Term ``IRH/U''.--The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall, under regulation and Medicare program guidance, use the 
term ``inpatient rehabilitation hospital/unit'' or ``IRH/U'' to refer 
to entities receiving payment for inpatient rehabilitation services 
under section 1886(j) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(j)).

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Sections 1 and 3 of this Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007, and 
section 2 shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
Example Output: Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to revise the classification criterion used to determine whether a hospital or hospital unit is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Eliminates the current schedule of applicable percentages. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, instead, to require in the classification criterion a compliance rate no greater than the 60% compliance rate that became effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2006.

Requires the Secretary, for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2008, to include patients with comorbidity in the inpatient population that counts towards such 60% compliance rate.

Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare fiscal intermediaries, Medicare administrative contractors, recovery audit contractors, and other government agents to use and apply the criteria established in HCFA Ruling 85-2, as issued on July 31, 1985, as the sole standard for determining the medical necessity of servivces provided by inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units to Medicare beneficiaries.

Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees: (1) an examination of the impact of the 75% rule on the Medicare program, and specifically on Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) alternatives to the 75% rule policy for determining exclusion criteria for inpatient rehabilitation hospital and unit designation under the Medicare program.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rigs to Reefs Habitat Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Decommissioning.--The term ``decommissioning'' includes 
        the flushing, plugging, and cementing of a platform.
            (2) Fund.--The term ``Fund'' means the Reef Maintenance 
        Fund established by section 3(h)(1).
            (3) Notice.--The term ``Notice'' means the notice to 
        lessees numbered 2010-G05, entitled ``Notice to Lessees and 
        Operators of Federal Oil and Gas Leases and Pipeline Right-of-
        Way Holders in the Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico OCS 
        Region'', and issued September 15, 2010.
            (4) Platform.--The term ``platform'' means an offshore oil 
        and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico that, as determined by 
        the Secretary--
                    (A) is no longer useful for operations, as defined 
                in the Notice; and
                    (B) has become critical for marine fisheries 
                habitat.
            (5) Program.--The term ``Program'' means the artificial 
        reef program authorized under the National Fishing Enhancement 
        Act of 1984 (33 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.).
            (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.

SEC. 3. USE OF CERTAIN OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PLATFORMS FOR ARTIFICIAL 
              REEFS.

    (a) Assessment.--As soon as practicable after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall conduct an assessment of each of the 
platforms--
            (1) to determine whether there are coral populations or 
        other protected species in the vicinity of the platform; and
            (2) to identify any species in the vicinity of the platform 
        that have recreational or commercial value.
    (b) Prohibition of Removal.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding the Notice, no platforms 
        shall be removed in accordance with the Notice until the date 
        on which the Secretary has completed assessments of each of the 
        platforms under subsection (a).
            (2) Suspension of decommissioning.--If, during an 
        assessment conducted under subsection (a), the Secretary 
        determines that there is a substantial reef ecosystem in the 
        vicinity of the platform, the decommissioning of the platform 
        under the Notice shall be placed on hold until such time as the 
        Secretary determines that decommissioning the platform would 
        not harm the reef ecosystem.
    (c) Exemption From Certain Requirements.--The requirement in the 
Notice that a lessee remove a platform as soon as possible, but not 
later than 5 years after the effective date of the Notice or within 5 
years of the platform, meeting the definition of no longer useful for 
operations, whichever is later, shall not apply to a lessee that--
            (1) commits to entering the platform in the Program; and
            (2) demonstrates the commitment described in paragraph (1) 
        by initiating discussions with applicable States regarding 
        potential sites for the artificial reef.
    (d) Reefing in Place.--A lessee may, as appropriate, provide for 
reefing in place under the Program.
    (e) State Programs.--
            (1) In general.--A State that has a State rig-to-reef 
        program may enter into an agreement with any appropriate 
        entities to assume liability in Federal water for a structure 
        covered by the State program.
            (2) Maintenance.--Notwithstanding an agreement entered into 
        under paragraph (1), the operator of the covered structure 
        shall remain responsible for maintaining the covered structure.
    (f) Removal of Top Decks.--Under the Program, top decks of a rig 
may be removed, down to water surface level, if appropriate identifying 
markers are used to protect navigation.
    (g) Maintenance and Financial Requirements.--As a condition of 
inclusion in the Program, the owner of a rig enrolled in the Program 
shall be required to--
            (1) maintain an anode system for the rig; and
            (2) pay into the Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of the 
        estimated costs associated with the removal of the platform 
        that the owner would have been responsible for if the owner had 
        not participated in the Program, as determined by the 
        Secretary.
    (h) Reef Maintenance Fund.--
            (1) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of 
        the United States a fund to be known as the ``Reef Maintenance 
        Fund'', to be administered by the Secretary, to be available 
        without fiscal year limitation and not subject to 
        appropriation, for the maintenance of artificial reefs 
        established under the Program.
            (2) Transfers to fund.--The Fund shall consist of such 
        amounts deposited in the Fund under subsection (g)(2).
            (3) Prohibition.--Amounts in the Fund may not be made 
        available for any purpose other than a purpose described in 
        paragraph (1).
            (4) Annual reports.--
                    (A) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the 
                end of each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 
                2012, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the 
                Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the 
                Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
                Senate, and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
                House of Representatives a report on the operation of 
                the Fund during the fiscal year.
                    (B) Contents.--Each report shall include, for the 
                fiscal year covered by the report, the following:
                            (i) A statement of the amounts deposited 
                        into the Fund.
                            (ii) A description of the expenditures made 
                        from the Fund for the fiscal year, including 
                        the purpose of the expenditures.
                            (iii) Recommendations for additional 
                        authorities to fulfill the purpose of the Fund.
                            (iv) A statement of the balance remaining 
                        in the Fund at the end of the fiscal year.
Example Output: Rigs to Reefs Habitat Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to assess each offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico that is no longer useful for operations, and has become critical for a marine fisheries habitat, to: (1) determine whether there are coral populations or other protected species in the platform's vicinity, and (2) identify any species in the vicinity that have recreational or commercial value.

Prohibits the removal of any such platforms until the Secretary has completed each assessment.

Requires suspension of the decommissioning of a platform if a substantial reef ecosystem is in the vicinity until the Secretary determines that decommissioning would not harm the ecosystem.

Exempts from certain platform removal deadlines any lessees who: (1) commit to entering a particular platform in the artificial reef program under the National Fishing Enhancement Act of 1984, and (2) initiate discussions with applicable states regarding potential artificial reef sites.

Allows a lessee to provide for reefing in place under the artificial reef program.

Permits states with a state rig-to-reef program to enter agreements with any appropriate entities to assume liability in federal water for a structure covered by the state program.

Establishes a Reef Maintenance Fund. Requires the owner of a rig enrolled in the artificial reef program to: (1) maintain a rig anode system, and (2) pay into the Fund 50% of the estimated platform removal costs for which the owner would have been responsible if it had not participated in the program.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Independent Telecommunications 
Consumer Enhancement Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted to 
        foster the rapid deployment of advanced telecommunications and 
        information technologies and services to all Americans by 
        promoting competition and reducing regulation in 
        telecommunications markets nationwide.
            (2) The Telecommunications Act of 1996 specifically 
        recognized the unique abilities and circumstances of local 
        exchange carriers with fewer than two percent of the Nation's 
        subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide.
            (3) Given the markets two percent carriers typically serve, 
        such carriers are uniquely positioned to accelerate the 
        deployment of advanced services and competitive initiatives for 
        the benefit of consumers in less densely populated regions of 
        the Nation.
            (4) Existing regulations are typically tailored to the 
        circumstances of larger carriers and therefore often impose 
        disproportionate burdens on two percent carriers, impeding such 
        carriers' deployment of advanced telecommunications services 
        and competitive initiatives to consumers in less densely 
        populated regions of the Nation.
            (5) Reducing regulatory burdens on two percent carriers 
        will enable such carriers to devote additional resources to the 
        deployment of advanced services and to competitive initiatives 
        to benefit consumers in less densely populated regions of the 
        Nation.
            (6) Reducing regulatory burdens on two percent carriers 
        will increase such carriers' ability to respond to marketplace 
        conditions, allowing them to accelerate deployment of advanced 
        services and competitive initiatives to benefit consumers in 
        less densely populated regions of the Nation.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to accelerate the deployment of advanced services and 
        the development of competition in the telecommunications 
        industry for the benefit of consumers in all regions of the 
        Nation, consistent with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, by 
        reducing regulatory burdens on local exchange carriers with 
        fewer than two percent of the Nation's subscriber lines 
        installed in the aggregate nationwide;
            (2) to improve such carriers' flexibility to undertake such 
        initiatives; and
            (3) to allow such carriers to redirect resources from 
        paying the costs of such regulatory burdens to increasing 
        investment in such initiatives.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    Section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (51) and (52) as paragraphs 
        (52) and (53), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (50) the following:
            ``(51) Two percent carrier.--The term `two percent carrier' 
        means an incumbent local exchange carrier within the meaning of 
        section 251(h) that has fewer than two percent of the Nation's 
        subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide.''.

SEC. 4. REGULATORY RELIEF FOR TWO PERCENT CARRIERS.

    Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by adding at 
the end thereof a new part IV as follows:

         ``PART IV--PROVISIONS CONCERNING TWO PERCENT CARRIERS

``SEC. 281. REDUCED REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR TWO PERCENT CARRIERS.

    ``(a) Commission To Take Into Account Differences.--In adopting 
rules that apply to incumbent local exchange carriers (within the 
meaning of section 251(h)), the Commission shall separately evaluate 
the burden that any proposed regulatory, compliance, or reporting 
requirements would have on two percent carriers.
    ``(b) Effect of Reconsideration or Waiver.--If the Commission 
adopts a rule that applies to incumbent local exchange carriers and 
fails to separately evaluate the burden that any proposed regulatory, 
compliance, or reporting requirement would have on two percent 
carriers, the Commission shall not enforce the rule against two percent 
carriers unless and until the Commission performs such separate 
evaluation.
    ``(c) Additional Review Not Required.--Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to require the Commission to conduct a separate 
evaluation under subsection (a) if the rules adopted do not apply to 
two percent carriers, or such carriers are exempted from such rules.
    ``(d) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this section shall be construed 
to prohibit any size-based differentiation among carriers mandated by 
this Act, chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, the Commission's 
rules, or any other provision of law.
    ``(e) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall apply 
with respect to any rule adopted on or after the date of the enactment 
of this section.

``SEC. 282. LIMITATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    ``(a) Limitation.--The Commission shall not require a two percent 
carrier--
            ``(1) to file cost allocation manuals or to have such 
        manuals audited, but a two percent carrier that qualifies as a 
        class A carrier shall annually certify to the Commission that 
        the two percent carrier's cost allocation complies with the 
        rules of the Commission; or
            ``(2) to file Automated Reporting and Management 
        Information Systems (ARMIS) reports.
    ``(b) Preservation of Authority.--Except as provided in subsection 
(a), nothing in this Act limits the authority of the Commission to 
obtain access to information under sections 211, 213, 215, 218, and 220 
with respect to two percent carriers.

``SEC. 283. INTEGRATED OPERATION OF TWO PERCENT CARRIERS.

    ``The Commission shall not require any two percent carrier to 
establish or maintain a separate affiliate to provide any common 
carrier or noncommon carrier services, including local and 
interexchange services, commercial mobile radio services, advanced 
services (within the meaning of section 706 of the Telecommunications 
Act of 1996), paging, Internet, information services or other enhanced 
services, or other services. The Commission shall not require any two 
percent carrier and its affiliates to maintain separate officers, 
directors, or other personnel, network facilities, buildings, research 
and development departments, books of account, financing, marketing, 
provisioning, or other operations.

``SEC. 284. PARTICIPATION IN TARIFF POOLS AND PRICE CAP REGULATION.

    ``(a) NECA Pool.--The participation or withdrawal from 
participation by a two percent carrier of one or more study areas in 
the common line tariff administered and filed by the National Exchange 
Carrier Association or any successor tariff or administrator shall not 
obligate such carrier to participate or withdraw from participation in 
such tariff for any other study area.
    ``(b) Price Cap Regulation.--A two percent carrier may elect to be 
regulated by the Commission under price cap rate regulation, or elect 
to withdraw from such regulation, for one or more of its study areas at 
any time. The Commission shall not require a carrier making an election 
under this paragraph with respect to any study area or areas to make 
the same election for any other study area.

``SEC. 285. DEPLOYMENT OF NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES BY TWO 
              PERCENT COMPANIES.

    ``The Commission shall permit two percent carriers to introduce new 
interstate telecommunications services by filing a tariff on one day's 
notice showing the charges, classifications, regulations and practices 
therefor, without obtaining a waiver, or make any other showing before 
the Commission in advance of the tariff filing. The Commission shall 
not have authority to approve or disapprove the rate structure for such 
services shown in such tariff.

``SEC. 286. ENTRY OF COMPETING CARRIER.

    ``(a) Pricing Flexibility.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, any two percent carrier shall be permitted to deaverage its 
interstate switched or special access rates, file tariffs on one day's 
notice, and file contract-based tariffs for interstate switched or 
special access services immediately upon certifying to the Commission 
that a telecommunications carrier unaffiliated with such carrier is 
engaged in facilities-based entry within such carrier's service area.
    ``(b) Pricing Deregulation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, upon receipt by the Commission of a certification by a two 
percent carrier that a local exchange carrier that is not a two percent 
carrier is engaged in facilities-based entry within the two percent 
carrier's service area, the Commission shall regulate such two percent 
carrier as non-dominant, and therefore shall not require the tariffing 
of the interstate service offerings of such two percent carrier.
    ``(c) Participation in Exchange Carrier Association Tariff.--A two 
percent carrier that meets the requirements of subsection (a) or (b) of 
this section with respect to one or more study areas shall be permitted 
to participate in the common line tariff administered and filed by the 
National Exchange Carrier Association or any successor tariff or 
administrator, by electing to include one or more of its study areas in 
such tariff.
    ``(d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            ``(1) Facilities-based entry.--The term `facilities-based 
        entry' means, within the service area of a two percent 
        carrier--
                    ``(A) the provision or procurement of local 
                telephone exchange switching capability; and
                    ``(B) the provision of local exchange service to at 
                least one unaffiliated customer.
            ``(2) Contract-based tariff.--The term `contract-based 
        tariff' shall mean a tariff based on a service contract entered 
        into between a two percent carrier and one or more customers of 
        such carrier. Such tariff shall include--
                    ``(A) the term of the contract, including any 
                renewal options;
                    ``(B) a brief description of each of the services 
                provided under the contract;
                    ``(C) minimum volume commitments for each service, 
                if any;
                    ``(D) the contract price for each service or 
                services at the volume levels committed to by the 
                customer or customers;
                    ``(E) a brief description of any volume discounts 
                built into the contract rate structure; and
                    ``(F) a general description of any other 
                classifications, practices, and regulations affecting 
                the contract rate.
            ``(3) Service area.--The term `service area' has the same 
        meaning as in section 214(e)(5).

``SEC. 287. SAVINGS PROVISIONS.

    ``(a) Commission Authority.--Nothing in this part shall be 
construed to restrict the authority of the Commission under sections 
201 through 205 and 208.
    ``(b) Rural Telephone Company Rights.--Nothing in this part shall 
be construed to diminish the rights of rural telephone companies 
otherwise accorded by this Act, or the rules, policies, procedures, 
guidelines, and standards of the Commission as of the date of the 
enactment of this section.''.

SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON MERGER REVIEW

    (a) Amendment.--Section 310 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 310) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Deadline for Making Public Interest Determination.--
            ``(1) Time limit.--In connection with any merger between 
        two percent carriers, or the acquisition, directly or 
        indirectly, by a two percent carrier or its affiliate of the 
        securities or assets of another two percent carrier or its 
        affiliate, the Commission shall make any determination required 
        by subsection (d) of this section or section 214 not later than 
        60 days after the date an application with respect to such 
        merger is submitted to the Commission.
            ``(2) Approval absent action.--If the Commission does not 
        approve or deny an application as described in paragraph (1) by 
        the end of the period specified, the application shall be 
        deemed approved on the day after the end of such period. Any 
        such application deemed approved under this subsection shall be 
        deemed approved without conditions.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall apply 
with respect to any application that is submitted to the Commission on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. Applications pending 
with the Commission on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be 
subject to the requirements of this section as if they had been filed 
with the Commission on the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 6. TIME LIMITS FOR ACTION ON PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION OR 
              WAIVER.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 405 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 405) is amended by adding to the end the following:
    ``(c) Expedited Action Required.--
            ``(1) Time limit.--Within 90 days after receiving from a 
        two percent carrier a petition for reconsideration filed under 
        this section or a petition for waiver of a rule, policy, or 
        other Commission requirement, the Commission shall issue an 
        order granting or denying such petition. If the Commission 
        fails to act on a petition for waiver subject to the 
        requirements of this section within this 90-day period, the 
        relief sought in such petition shall be deemed granted. If the 
        Commission fails to act on a petition for reconsideration 
        subject to the requirements of this section within this 90 day 
        period, the Commission's enforcement of any rule the 
        reconsideration of which was specifically sought by the 
        petitioning party shall be stayed with respect to that party 
        until the Commission issues an order granting or denying such 
        petition.
            ``(2) Finality of action.--Any order issued under paragraph 
        (1), or any grant of a petition for waiver that is deemed to 
        occur as a result of the Commission's failure to act under 
        paragraph (1), shall be a final order and may be appealed.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall apply 
with respect to any petition for reconsideration or petition for waiver 
that is submitted to the Commission on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. Pending petitions for reconsideration or 
petitions for waiver shall be subject to the requirements of this 
section as if they had been filed on the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 3, 2000.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
Example Output:
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in adopting rules that apply to incumbent local exchange carriers, to separately evaluate the burden that any proposed regulatory, compliance, or reporting requirements would have on two percent carriers. Authorizes a two percent carrier to seek a waiver or reconsideration of an adopted rule which does not separately evaluate such burden upon such carriers.
Prohibits the FCC from requiring a two percent carrier to file cost allocation manuals or Automated Reporting and Management Information systems (but requires a two percent carrier that qualifies as a class A carrier to annually certify to the FCC that such carrier's cost allocation complies with FCC rules).
Prohibits the FCC from requiring any two percent carrier to establish or maintain a separate affiliate to provide any common carrier or noncommon carrier services, or to maintain separate officers, personnel, facilities, books or accounts, or other operations.
States that the participation or withdrawal from participation by a two percent carrier of one or more study areas in the common line tariff administered and filed by the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) or any successor tariff or administrator shall not obligate such carrier to participate or withdraw from participation in such tariff for any other study area. Authorizes a two percent carrier to elect to be regulated by the FCC under price cap regulation, or to withdraw from such regulation, for one or more of its study areas at any time.
Directs the FCC to permit two percent carriers to introduce new telecommunications services by filing a tariff on one day's notice, without making any other showing before the FCC in advance of such filing.
Allows any two percent carrier to deaverage its interstate switched or special rates and file contract-based tariffs for interstate switched or special access services immediately upon certifying to the FCC that an unaffiliated carrier has engaged in facilities-based entry within such carrier's service area. Requires the FCC to regulate such two percent carrier as non-dominant, and therefore not subject to tariffing of interstate services, after such certification. Allows such a carrier to participate in the common line tariff administered and filed by the NECA or any successor tariff or administrator by electing to include one or more of its study areas in such tariff.
Requires the FCC to determine: (1) within 60 days after application that the public interest, convenience, and necessity will be served by a merger or acquisition between two percent carriers; and (2) within 90 days a petition by a two percent carrier for reconsideration or waiver of a rule, policy, or other FCC requirement (as authorized under this Act).