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House Journal: Page 1316: Thursday, April 6, 1995

 9     3.  A price regulation plan, at a minimum, shall
10   include provisions, consistent with the provisions of
11   this section and any rules adopted by the board, for
12   the following:
13     a.  (1)  Establishing and changing prices, terms,
14   and conditions for basic communications services.  The
15   initial plan for price regulation must include a
16   proposal, which the board shall approve, for reducing
17   the local exchange carrier's average intrastate access
18   service rates to the local exchange carrier's average
19   interstate access service rates in effect as of the
20   last day of the calendar year immediately preceding
21   the date of filing of the plan, as follows:
22     (a)  A local exchange carrier with five hundred
23   thousand or more access lines in this state shall
24   reduce its average intrastate access service rates to
25   its average interstate access service rates as of the
26   date that the plan is filed.
27     (b)  A local exchange carrier with fewer than five
28   hundred thousand but seventy-five thousand or more
29   access lines in this state shall reduce its average
30   intrastate access service rates to its average
31   interstate access service rates in increments of at
32   least twenty-five percent, with the initial reduction
33   to take effect on approval of the plan and equal
34   annual reductions on each anniversary of the approval
35   during the first three years that its plan is in
36   effect.
37     (c)  A local exchange carrier with fewer than
38   seventy-five thousand access lines in this state shall
39   reduce its average intrastate access service rates to
40   its average interstate access service rates with equal
41   annual reductions during a period beginning no more
42   than two years and ending no more than five years from
43   the plan's inception.
44     (2)  This section shall not be construed to do
45   either of the following:
46     (a)  Prohibit an additional decrease in a carrier's
47   average intrastate access service rate during the term
48   of the plan.
49     (b)  Permit any increase in a carrier's average
50   intrastate access service rates during the term of the

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 1   plan.
 2     (3)  The plan shall also provide that the initial
 3   prices for basic communications services shall be six
 4   percent less than the rates approved and in effect at
 5   the time the local exchange carrier files its plan.
 6   In lieu of the six percent reduction, a local exchange
 7   carrier may elect to establish its rates for basic
 8   communications services in a rate proceeding under
 9   section 476.3 or 476.6 commenced after the effective

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