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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  06-  310  Released:  February  8,  2006 
 PLEADING  CYCLE  ESTABLISHED  FOR  FLORIDA  PUBLIC  TELECOMMUNICATIONS  ASSOCIATION,  INC.  PETITION  FOR  DECLARATORY  RULING  AND  ORDER  OF 
 PREEMPTION 
 CC  Docket  No.  96-  128 
 COMMENTS:  February  28,  2006  REPLY  COMMENTS:  March  10,  2006 


 On  January  31,  2006,  the  Florida  Public  Telecommunications  Association,  Inc.  (FPTA)  filed  a  petition  for  declaratory  ruling  asking  the  Commission  to:  declare  that,  from  April  15,  1997  to  November 
 10,  2003,  BellSouth  Telecommunications,  Inc.  (BellSouth)  collected  end  user  common  line  charges  (aka  subscriber  line  charges)  in  addition  to  unadjusted  local  payphone  access  line  charges  in  contravention  of 
 section  276  of  the  Communications  Act;  declare  that  BellSouth  must  refund  to  the  relevant  payphone  service  providers  the  charges  those  providers  paid  to  BellSouth  from  April  15,  1997  to  November  10, 
 2003  with  interest,  to  the  extent  those  charges  exceeded  rates  that  comply  with  section  276  of  the  Act,  including  the  equivalent  of  any  end  user  common  line  charge  amounts  collected  during  that  period  of  time 
 and;  preempt  a  Florida  Public  Service  Commission  ruling  that  FPTA  alleges  is  inconsistent  with  the  Commission’s  regulations. 


 We  invite  comments  on  the  FPTA  petition.  Interested  parties  may  file  comments  on  or  before  February  28,  2006  and  reply  comments  on  or  before  March  10,  2006.  Comments  may  be  filed  using  the 
 Commission’s  Electronic  Comment  Filing  System  (ECFS)  or  by  filing  paper  copies.  1  Comments  filed  through  the  ECFS  can  be  sent  as  an  electronic  file  via  the  Internet  to  http://  www.  fcc.  gov/  cgb/  ecfs/. 
 Generally,  only  one  copy  of  an  electronic  submission  must  be  filed.  If  multiple  docket  or  rulemaking  numbers  appear  in  the  caption  of  the  proceeding,  commenters  must  transmit  one  electronic  copy  of  the 
 comments  to  each  docket  or  rulemaking  number  referenced  in  the  caption.  In  completing  the  transmittal  screen,  commenters  should  include  their  full  name,  U.  S.  Postal  Service  mailing  address,  and  the 
 applicable  docket  or  rulemaking  number,  in  this  case,  CC  Docket  No.  96-  128.  Parties  may  also  submit  an  electronic  comment  by  Internet  e-  mail.  To  get  filing  instructions  for  e-  mail  comments,  commenters 
 should  send  an  e-  mail  to  ecfs@  fcc.  gov,  and  should  include  the  following  words  in  the  body  of  the  message,  “get  form.”  A  sample  form  and  directions  will  be  sent  in  reply.  Parties  who  choose  to  file  by 
 paper  must  file  an  original  and  four  copies  of  each  filing.  If  more  than  one  docket  or  rulemaking  number  appears  in  the  caption  of  this  proceeding,  commenters  must  submit  two  additional  copies  for  each 
 additional  docket  or  rulemaking  number. 


 1  See  Electronic  Filing  of  Documents  in  Rulemaking  Proceedings,  GC  Docket  No.  97-  113,  Report  and 
 Order,  13  FCC  Rcd  11322  (1998). 
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