[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 3, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 35107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16651]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 36

[CC Docket No. 80-286; FCC 01-162]


Jurisdictional Separations Reform and Referral to the Federal-
State Joint Board

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.

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SUMMARY: This document announces the effective date of the amendments 
to our rules for implementing a five-year interim ``Freeze'' of the 
jurisdictional separations process in order to simplify and stabilize 
the separations process pending more comprehensive separations reform. 
We believe these modifications will bring simplification and regulatory 
certainty to the separations process in a time of rapid market and 
technology changes, until the comprehensive reform is completed. The 
Report and Order in CC Docket No. 80-286 was published in the Federal 
Register on June 21, 2001. One of the rules contained information 
collection requirements.

DATES: Section 36.3(b), published at 66 FR 33202, June 21, 2001, was 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on June 22, 2001 
and became effective on June 22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Einhorn or Andrew Firth, Common 
Carrier Bureau, Accounting Policy Division, (202) 418-7400, TTY: (202) 
418-0484.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 21, 2001, the Commission released a 
Report and Order in CC Docket No. 80-286 (Order), 66 FR 33202, June 21, 
2001, that took action in response to the Federal-State Joint Board on 
Jurisdictional Separations' recommended reforms to the jurisdictional 
separations process codified at part 36 of the Commission's rules, 47 
CFR 36 et seq., as a means to simplify and stabilize the separations 
process pending more comprehensive reform. Specifically, pending 
further reform, the Commission adopts a five-year freeze of all part 36 
category relationships and jurisdictional allocation factors for price 
cap incumbent local exchange carriers, and a freeze of all allocation 
factors for rate-of-return incumbent local exchange carriers. The 
Commission believes these modifications will bring simplification and 
regulatory certainty to the separations process in a time of rapid 
market and technology changes, until comprehensive reform is completed. 
A summary of the Order was published in the Federal Register. See 66 FR 
33202, June 21, 2001. One of the rules contained information collection 
requirements that required OMB approval. On June 22, 2001, OMB approved 
the information collections. See OMB No. 3060-0988. The rule amendments 
adopted by the Commission in the Order took effect on June 22, 2001. 
This publication satisfies the statement in the Order that the 
Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing 
the effective date of that rule.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 36

    Jurisdictional separations, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Telecommunications, Telephone.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-16651 Filed 7-2-01; 8:45 am]
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