§ 69.307   General support facilities.

   (a) General purpose computer investment used in the provision of the Line
   Information Database sub-element at § 69.120(b) shall be assigned to that
   sub-element.

   (b) General purpose computer investment used in the provision of the billing
   name and address element at § 69.128 shall be assigned to that element.

   (c)(1) Until June 30, 2002, for all local exchange carriers not subject to
   price cap regulation and for other carriers that acquire all of the billing
   and collection services that they provide to interexchange carriers from
   unregulated affiliates through affiliate transactions, from unaffiliated
   third parties, or from both of these sources, all other General Support
   Facilities  investments  shall  be apportioned among the interexchange
   category,  the billing and collection category, and Common Line, Local
   Switching, Information, Transport, and Special Access elements on the basis
   of Central Office Equipment, Information Origination/Termination Equipment,
   and Cable and Wire Facilities, combined.

   (2) Beginning July 1, 2002, for all local exchange carriers that acquire all
   of the billing and collection services that they provide to interexchange
   carriers from unregulated affiliates through affiliate transactions, from
   unaffiliated third parties, or from both of these sources, all other General
   Support Facilities investments shall be apportioned among the interexchange
   category,  the billing and collection category, and Common Line, Local
   Switching, Information, Transport, and Special Access elements on the basis
   of Central Office Equipment, Information Origination/Termination Equipment,
   and Cable and Wire Facilities, combined.

   (d) For local exchange carriers subject to price cap regulation and not
   covered  by  Section  69.307(c), a portion of General purpose computer
   investment (Account 2124), investment in Land (Account 2111), Buildings
   (Account 2121), and Office equipment (Account 2123) shall be apportioned to
   the billing and collection category on the basis of the Big Three Expense
   Factors allocator, defined in Section 69.2 of this Part, modified to exclude
   expenses  that are apportioned on the basis of allocators that include
   General Support Facilities investment. The remaining portion of investment
   in these four accounts together with all other General Support Facilities
   investments shall be apportioned among the interexchange category, the
   billing  and  collection  category,  and Common Line, Local Switching,
   Information, Transport, and Special Access Elements on the basis of Central
   Office Equipment, Information Origination/Termination Equipment, and Cable
   and Wire Facilities, combined.

   (e) Beginning July 1, 2002, for non-price cap local exchange carriers not
   covered by § 69.307(c)(2), a portion of General purpose computer investment
   shall be apportioned to the billing and collection category on the basis of
   the Big Three Expense Factors allocator, defined in § 69.2, modified to
   exclude  expenses that are apportioned on the basis of allocators that
   include General Support Facilities investment. The remaining General Support
   Facilities  investments  shall  be apportioned among the interexchange
   category,  the billing and collection category, and Common Line, Local
   Switching, Information, Transport, and Special Access Elements on the basis
   of Central Office Equipment, Information Origination/Termination Equipment,
   and Cable and Wire Facilities, combined.

   [ 58 FR 30995 , May 28, 1993, as amended at  58 FR 36145 , July 6, 1993;  62 FR 31939 , June 11, 1997;  62 FR 40464 , July 29, 1997;  62 FR 65622 , Dec. 15,
   1997;  66 FR 59732 , Nov. 30, 2001]

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