Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 023 - Public Service Commission › Sub-Agency 0002 - Public Service Commission Rules › Chapter 5 - WYOMING UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND › Section 5-3 - Assessment Reporting, Payments and Annual Assessment Rate

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) For assessment
				purposes, all companies realizing any retail intrastate revenue from
				telecommunications services in Wyoming are required to quarterly report such
				gross revenues to the Commission. The report of revenue, whatever the amount,
				is required by the last day of the first month after the end of any calendar
				quarter in which a company realizes any intrastate revenue from its operations
				in Wyoming;
(b) By April 15 of each
				year, the Fund Manager shall issue a report that details the $30 imputed price
				benchmark described in Wyoming Statute §
									
										37-15-501(h), including a
				comparison to the weighted statewide average 130% price benchmark, the
				calculated proposed support distributions from the Fund and the proposed
				assessment rate that shall be applied to gross intrastate retail revenues. This
				proposed assessment rate shall be based on the computed amounts needed for
				support distributions, the statutory cap described in Wyoming Statute §
									
										37-15-501(e)(ii), the prior
				year gross intrastate retail revenues and any over-or under-collection in the
				Fund from the previous year;
(c) By
				May 15 of each year, the Commission shall by order set the Fund assessment rate
				for the 12 month period beginning July 1st of each
				year;
(d) The Fund assessment rate
				shall apply only to intrastate retail telecommunications service revenues and
				shall not apply to revenues associated with wholesale services. For purposes of
				the section, wholesale services include any service which is resold, with or
				without additional value-added features, to end users by the purchaser of the
				service, except lines purchased and resold by internet service
				providers;
(e) Fund assessment
				charges shall appear as a separate line item on each customer's bill unless the
				Company requests a waiver and the Commission grants the request;
(f) All Companies realizing intrastate retail
				revenue from telecommunications services in Wyoming are required to report such
				gross revenues to the Commission as described in (a) and contemporaneously pay
				into the fund the assessment amount calculated by multiplying the Company's
				gross revenue, less any wholesale transactions described in paragraph (d), by
				the assessment rate. Administrative costs incurred by Companies making payments
				into the Fund shall not be used as an offset to the required payments of
				assessment;
(g) For assessments of
				$500 per month or less, payment is required quarterly. For assessments greater
				than $500 per month, payment is required monthly. Payment is due on or before
				the last day of the first month following the assessment month or
				quarter;
(h) Assessments not timely
				paid shall be subject to a late payment charge equal to 1.5% on the balance
				each month until the assessment is paid.