[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 2003)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 38642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16487]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 54

[FCC 02-10]


Establishment of the Media Bureau, the Wireline Competition 
Bureau and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Reorganization 
of the International Bureau, and Other Organizational Changes

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the final regulation 
Part 54, which was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, March 
21, 2002, (67 FR 13216). This document will correct two words in Sec.  
54.709(a)(3) of the Commission rules. The regulation relates to the 
computations of required contributions to universal service support 
mechanisms in Sec.  54.709(a)(3).

DATES: Effective June 30, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Law Hsu, Deputy Chief, Wireline 
Competition Bureau, Telecommunications Access Policy Division, (202) 
418-7400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Part 54 rules are issued pursuant to the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended. The purpose of the part 54 rules is to implement 
section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 
254. The final regulation that is subject to the correction deals with 
Sec.  54.709 and how carriers are to compute their required 
contributions to the universal service support mechanism.

Need for Correction

    As published, the final regulation contains an error which needs to 
be corrected.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR part 54

    Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Telecommunications, 
Telephone.

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Accordingly, 47 CFR part 54 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendments:

PART 54--UNIVERSAL SERVICE

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1. The authority citation for part 54 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 47 U.S.C. 1, 4(i), 201, 205, 214, and 254 unless 
otherwise noted.

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2. Revise paragraph (a)(3) of Sec.  54.303 to read as follows:


Sec.  54.709  Computations of required contributions to universal 
service support mechanisms.

    (a) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (2) * * *
    (3) Total projected expenses for the federal universal service 
support mechanisms for each quarter must be approved by the Commission 
before they are used to calculate the quarterly contribution factor and 
individual contributions. For each quarter, the Administrator must 
submit its projections of demand for the federal universal service 
support mechanisms for high-cost areas, low-income consumers, schools 
and libraries, and rural health care providers, respectively, and the 
basis for those projections, to the Commission and the Wireline 
Competition Bureau at least sixty (60) calendar days prior to the start 
of that quarter. For each quarter, the Administrator must submit its 
projections of administrative expenses for the high-cost mechanism, the 
low-income mechanism, the schools and libraries mechanism and the rural 
health care mechanism and the basis for those projections to the 
Commission and the Wireline Competition Bureau at least sixty (60) 
calendar days prior to the start of that quarter. Based on data 
submitted to the Administrator on the Telecommunications Reporting 
Worksheets, the Administrator must submit the total contribution base 
to the Wireline Competition Bureau at least thirty (30) days before the 
start of each quarter. The projections of demand and administrative 
expenses and the contribution factor shall be announced by the 
Commission in a public notice and shall be made available on the 
Commission's website. The Commission reserves the right to set 
projections of demand and administrative expenses at amounts that the 
Commission determines will serve the public interest at any time within 
the fourteen-day period following release of the Commission's public 
notice. If the Commission take no action within fourteen (14) days of 
the date of release of the public notice announcing the projections of 
demand and administrative expenses, the projections of demand and 
administrative expenses, and the contribution factor shall be deemed 
approved by the Commission. Except as provided in Sec.  54.706(c), the 
Administrator shall apply the quarterly contribution factor, once 
approved by the Commission, to contributor's interstate and 
international end-user telecommunications revenues to calculate the 
amount of individual contributions.
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Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-16487 Filed 6-27-03; 8:45 am]
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