[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 190 (Friday, September 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 58504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25020]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


Publication of Depreciation Rates

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the 
depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ended 
December 31, 1999.

DATES: These rates are effective for the period beginning January 1, 
1999 and ending December 31, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan P. Claffey, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Telecommunications Program, Rural Utilities Service, 
1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 4056, STOP 1590, Washington, DC 
20250-1590. Telephone: (202) 720-9556.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 206(a)(3) of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 requires RUS to annually determine and 
publish average depreciation rates used by its borrowers for the 
purposes of depreciating telecommunications plant. The following chart 
provides those rates, compiled by RUS for the reporting period ended 
December 31, 1999:

  Average Depreciation Rates of Rus Borrowers by Equipment Category For
                     Period Ended December 31, 1999:
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                                                           Depreciation
            Telecommunications plant category             rate (percent)
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1. Land and Support Assets:
  a. Motor vehicles.....................................           15.00
  b. Aircraft...........................................           10.00
  c. Special purpose vehicles...........................           12.00
  d. Garage and other work equipment....................           10.00
  e. Buildings..........................................            3.01
  f. Furniture and office equipment.....................           10.00
  g. General purpose computers..........................           18.57
2. Central Office Switching:
  a. Digital (a)........................................            8.33
  b. Analog & electro-mechanical........................           10.00
  c. Operator systems...................................            8.86
  d. Radio systems......................................            9.50
  e. Circuit equipment (b)..............................           10.00
3. Information Origination/Termination:
  a. Station apparatus..................................           11.59
  b. Customer premises equipment........................           10.00
  c. Large private branch exchanges.....................           12.50
  d. Public telephone terminal equipment................           11.10
  e. Other terminal equipment...........................           10.55
4. Cable and Wire Facilities:
  a. Aerial cable-Poles.................................            6.67
  a. Aerial cable-metal.................................            6.00
  b. Aerial cable-fiber.................................            5.00
  c. Underground cable-metal............................            4.81
  d. Underground cable-fiber............................            4.82
  e. Buried cable-metal.................................            5.00
  f. Buried cable-fiber.................................            5.00
  g. Conduit systems....................................            3.02
  h. Other..............................................            7.21
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Christopher A. McLean,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 00-25020 Filed 9-28-00; 8:45 am]
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