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11   technological innovation.
12     d.  The introduction of new communications products
13   and services from a variety of sources.
14     e.  Regulatory efficiency including reduction of
15   regulatory costs and delays.  A plan shall not provide
16   for waiver of, release from, or delay in implementing
17   the provisions of this section, section 476.30D or
18   476.30E or any rules adopted by the board pursuant to
19   those sections.
20     5.  Notwithstanding an approved plan for price
21   regulation, the board shall continue to have
22   regulatory authority over the following:
23     a.  The level, extent, and timing of the unbundling
24   of essential facilities offered by a local exchange
25   carrier.
26     b.  Ensuring against cross-subsidization between
27   nonbasic communications services and basic
28   communications services.
29     6.  Any person, including the consumer advocate, a
30   body politic, or the board on its own motion, may file
31   a written complaint pursuant to section 476.3,
32   subsection 1, regarding a local exchange carrier's
33   implementation, operation under, or satisfaction of
34   the purposes of its price regulation plan.
35     7.  The consumer advocate may represent consumers
36   before the board regarding any rule, order, or
37   proceeding pertaining to price regulation.  The
38   consumer advocate may act as attorney for and
39   represent consumers generally before any state or
40   federal court concerning a board rule, order, or
41   proceeding pertaining to price regulation.
42     8.  In implementing price regulation, the board
43   shall consider competitively neutral methods to assist
44   lower-income Iowans to secure and retain telephone
45   services.
46     9.  The board shall determine the duration of any
47   plan.  The board shall review a local exchange
48   carrier's operation under its plan, with notice and an
49   opportunity for hearing, within four years of the
50   initiation of the plan and prior to the termination of

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 1   the plan.  The local exchange carrier, consumer
 2   advocate, or any person may propose, and the board may
 3   approve, any reasonable modifications to a local
 4   exchange carrier's plan as a result of the review,
 5   except that such modifications shall not require a
 6   reduction in the rates for any basic communications
 7   service.
 8     Sec. 8.  NEW SECTION.  476.30C  PROHIBITED ACTS.
 9     A local exchange carrier shall not do any of the
10   following:
11     1.  Discriminate against another provider of

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