Sec. 36.191  Equal access equipment.

    (a) Equal access investment includes only initial incremental 
expenditures for hardware and other equipment related directly to the 
provision of equal access which would not be required to upgrade the 
capabilities of the office involved absent the provision of equal 
access. Equal access investment is limited to such expenditures for 
converting central offices which serve competitive interexchange 
carriers or where there has been a bona fide request for conversion to 
equal access.
    (b) Equal access investment is first segregated from all other 
amounts in the primary accounts.
    (c) The equal access investment determined in this manner is 
allocated between the jurisdictions on the basis of relative state and 
interstate equal access traffic including interstate interLATA equal 
access traffic, intrastate interLATA equal access traffic, and BOC 
interstate corridor toll traffic as well as AT&T and OCC intraLATA equal 
access usage. Local exchange traffic and BOC intraLATA toll traffic is 
excluded. In the case of independent telephone companies, intrastate 
toll service provided by the independent local exchange company is 
excluded in determining intrastate usage, but intrastate toll service 
provided by long distance carriers affiliated with the local exchange 
company is included.
[ 52 FR 17229 , May 6, 1987, as amended at  53 FR 33012 , Aug. 29, 1988.]

        Subpart C--Operating Revenues and Certain Income Accounts

                                 General