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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 DA  05-  2196  Released:  July  28,  2005 
 WIRELINE  COMPETITION  BUREAU  APPROVES  PLAN  TO  REFUND  INTERSTATE  ACCESS  CUSTOMERS  OF  GTE  LECS  FOR  1993  AND  1994  TARIFF  PERIODS 
 CC  Docket  Nos.  93-  193  and  94-  65 
 On  July  30,  2004,  the  Commission  released  the  Add-  Back  Tariff  Investigation  Order,  concluding  its  investigation  of  the  1993  and  1994  interstate  access  tariffs  of  price  cap  local  exchange  carriers  (LECs) 
 that  implemented  a  sharing  or  lower  formula  adjustment.  1  The  Commission  found  unjust  and  unreasonable  the  1993  annual  access  tariffs  of  price  cap  LECs  that  implemented  a  sharing  or  lower 
 formula  adjustment  in  their  1992  Price  Cap  Indexes  (PCIs)  and  that  failed  to  apply  add-  back  in  computing  their  1992  earnings  and  rates  of  return  and  resulting  1993  PCIs.  2  The  Commission  made  the  same 
 findings  for  the  1994  interstate  access  tariffs  of  price  cap  LECs  that  implemented  a  sharing  or  lower  formula  adjustment  in  their  1993  PCIs.  3  Finally,  the  Commission  ordered  affected  price  cap  LECs  to:  (1) 
 recalculate  their  1992  and  1993  earnings  and  rates  of  return,  making  an  add-  back  adjustment;  (2)  determine  the  appropriate  sharing  or  lower  formula  adjustment  to  their  PCIs  for  the  subsequent  tariff  year; 
 (3)  compute  the  amount  of  any  resulting  access  rate  decrease;  and  (4)  submit  a  plan  for  refunding  the  amounts  owed  to  customers  plus  interest  as  a  result  of  any  such  rate  decrease.  4 


 The  Wireline  Competition  Bureau  (Bureau)  disapproved  the  original  refund  plan  filed  by  the  Verizon  Telephone  Companies  (Verizon)  on  behalf  of  certain  Bell  Atlantic  and  GTE  incumbent  LECs.  5 
 Verizon  filed  a  Modified  Refund  Plan.  6  The  Bureau  approved  Verizon’s  Modified  Refund  Plan  in  the 


 1  1993  Annual  Access  Tariff  Filings,  CC  Docket  No.  93-  193,  1994  Annual  Access  Tariff  Filings,  CC  Docket  No.  94- 
 65,  Order,  19  FCC  Rcd  14949  (2004)  (Add-  Back  Tariff  Investigation  Order). 
 2  Id.  at  para.  1. 


 3  Id. 
 4  Id.  at  14961,  para.  29. 
 5  1993  Annual  Access  Tariff  Filings,  CC  Docket  No.  93-  193,  1994  Annual  Access  Tariff  Filings,  CC  Docket  No.  94- 
 65,  Order,  20  FCC  Rcd  6077,  6084,  6089,  paras.  13,  26  (WCB  2005)  (Add-  Back  Refund  Order);  see  also  Verizon  Refund  Plan,  CC  Docket  Nos.  93-  193,  94-  65  (filed  Aug.  30,  2004);  Verizon  Refund  Plan  Errata,  CC  Docket  Nos. 


 93-  193,  94-  65  (filed  Sept.  10,  2004). 
 6  Verizon  Modified  Refund  Plan,  CC  Docket  Nos.  93-  193,  94-  65  (filed  April  18,  2005). 
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