Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-07 - Procedural rules › Part III - ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS › Subpart C - Abbreviated and Specialized Forms of Adjudicative Proceedings › Section 480-07-640 - Telecommunications companies-Review and approval of interconnection agreements under the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
Scope.
This rule implements
				  the commission review and approval process provisions of 47 U.S.C. Sec.
				  252.
(2)
Commission review
				  and approval of agreements.
(a)
Filing and service of agreements.
(i) Negotiated agreements. Parties to a
				  negotiated interconnection agreement must file a complete, signed copy of their
				  agreement to the commission for approval under 47 U.S.C. Sec. 252(e) within
				  thirty days after they sign the agreement. The parties must include any
				  appendices or attachments to the agreement. The request for approval must
				  summarize the agreement's main provisions and must affirm that the agreement
				  does not discriminate against nonparty carriers, is consistent with state and
				  federal law, and is in the public interest. The commission will reject a
				  request for approval that does not include all of the information required in
				  this section but will allow it to be refiled when complete. The timelines
				  established for commission review of requests for approval under 47 U.S.C. Sec.
				  252 do not begin until a complete request is properly filed.
(ii) Arbitrated agreements-Petition for
				  review; response. Any party may petition for commission review of an
				  arbitrator's report and decision within thirty days after the commission issues
				  the arbitrator's report, or at such other time as is established by notice or
				  order. Other parties to the arbitration proceeding may file a response within
				  ten days after the petitioner serves the petition, or at such other time as the
				  commission establishes by notice or order. Both petition and response must be
				  in the form of a brief of the issues and must address all legal and factual
				  bases in support of the parties' respective arguments that the commission
				  should or should not modify the arbitrator's report and decision.
(iii) Arbitrated agreements-Request for
				  approval. The parties must also file, on the date established for responding to
				  any petition for review, their request for approval of an arbitrated
				  interconnection agreement and a complete, signed copy of their interconnection
				  agreement including all negotiated terms, all terms requested under 47 U.S.C.
				  Sec. 252(i), and all terms drafted to implement the arbitrator's report and
				  decision. Arbitrated terms must be in bold font style and identify by footnote
				  the arbitrated issue that relates to the text. Any appendices or attachments to
				  the agreement must be included. The request for approval must summarize the
				  agreement's main provisions and must affirm that the agreement does not
				  discriminate against nonparty carriers, is consistent with state and federal
				  law, and is in the public interest. The commission will reject a request for
				  approval that does not include all of the information required in this section
				  but will allow the parties to refile the request when it is complete. The
				  timelines established for commission review of requests for approval do not
				  begin until the parties file a complete request.
(iv) Adopted agreements. If a company adopts
				  an interconnection agreement in its entirety that the commission has previously
				  approved, the parties to the adopted agreement must notify the commission of
				  the adoption within thirty days after they sign the adopted agreement. The
				  commission will include the adopted agreement on the no-action portion of a
				  regularly scheduled open meeting agenda. In the absence of an objection, the
				  commission will allow the agreement to become effective according to its
				  terms.