§  54.801   General.

   (a) The total amount of universal service support under this subpart,
   excluding administrative expenses, for areas served by price cap local
   exchange carriers as of June 30, 2000, is targeted to be $650 million
   per year, if no exchanges, other than those offered for sale prior to
   January 1, 2000, are sold to non-price-cap local exchange carriers or
   purchased from non-price cap local exchange carriers by price cap local
   exchange carriers.

   (b) In the event that all or a portion of a study area served by a
   price cap local exchange carrier is sold to an entity other than a
   price cap local exchange carrier, and the study area or portion thereof
   was not offered for sale prior to January 1, 2000, then the support
   that would otherwise be provided under this subpart, had such study
   area or portion thereof not been sold, will not be distributed or
   collected. Subsequent calculations will use the last reported data for
   the study area or portion thereof that was sold to determine the amount
   that will not be distributed or collected.

   (c) In the event that a price cap local exchange carrier acquires
   additional exchanges, from an entity other than a price cap local
   exchange carrier, that acquisition should be reported to the
   Administrator pursuant to § 54.802 and included in the determination of
   study area support pursuant to § 54.806 for the areas served by the
   acquiring price cap LEC, beginning with the next support recalculation
   pursuant to § 54.808.

   (d) In the event that a price cap local exchange carrier acquires
   additional exchanges from an entity that is also a price cap local
   exchange carrier, the acquiring price cap local exchange carrier will
   receive support under this subpart at the same level as the selling
   price cap local exchange carrier formerly received, and both carriers
   will adjust their line counts accordingly beginning with the next
   quarterly report to the Administrator. At the subsequent report to the
   Administrator for purposes of recalculating support as required by
   § 54.808, the acquiring and selling price cap local exchange carriers
   will reflect the acquired and sold lines, and will adjust the Average
   CMT Revenue per Line month for the affected study areas accordingly.

   (e) The Administrator for the fund created by this subpart shall be the
   Universal Service Administrative Company.

   [ 65 FR 38690 , June 21, 2000;  65 FR 57739 , Sept. 26, 2000]