A. Recovery of Waived PIC Charges -- The LEC
shall bill each equal access telecommunications carrier for the presubscription
PIC charges waived by
R746-356-7(C) or
(D).
B. Recovery of Expenses -- Any recovery of
recurring and one-time expenses incurred for the provision of intraLATA equal
access shall be through a separate, temporary equal access recovery charge
(EARC) element in a LEC's switched access and toll tariffs or price lists.
These expenses may include:
1. the incremental
additional expenses related directly to the provision of hardware and software
investments not required to upgrade the switching capabilities of each central
office absent the provision of the intraLATA equal access;
2. expenses for the incremental additional
training of customer contact personnel in the additional processing of
intraLATA presubscription requests;
3. expenses related directly to the
preparation, reproduction and mailing of the customer educational materials and
equal access notifications;
4.
expenses related directly to the preparation, reproduction and filings of the
intraLATA equal access tariffs or price lists;
5. expenses for the Utah portion of the
incremental additional software programming of the billing programs that would
not be required absent the Utah intraLATA equal access; and
6. expenses for the Utah portion of the
incremental additional software programming of the business office support
systems that would not be required absent the Utah intraLATA equal
access.
C. Recovery
Timing -- Expenses for intraLATA equal access implementation developed from
items shown in R746-356-8(B)
shall be subject to approval by the Commission. The EARC shall be assessed to
estimated monthly intraLATA originating switched access minutes and monthly
originating LEC toll minutes of use, over a three-year period for Qwest
Corporation, and over a two-year period for all other LECs.
D. True-Up --
1. For each applicable year, the EARC will be
trued-up and changed based on the actual incurred expenses, the actual
originating intraLATA switched access minutes billed to each PIC, and the
intraLATA toll minutes billed by the LEC.
2. The true-ups shall result in an annual
payment by the LEC to each participating equal access carrier for excess
payments, or an annual bill from the LEC to each participating equal access
carrier for any under- payments.
3.
The true-ups should result in an annual inter-company payment process based on
the proportional intraLATA switched access minutes previously billed to each
carrier and the intraLATA toll minutes billed by the LEC.
4. The LEC and an equal access carrier may
agree to alternative compensation arrangements in lieu of an annual
payment.
