Federal-State Communications Joint Board: Hearing Before the Communications Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on S. 1917 ... December 9, 1969U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 160 pages |
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action allocation of costs allocation procedures AT&T basis Bell companies Bell System Bell's benefit bill central office equipment Chairman changes charges Common Carrier CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumer customers D.C. DEAR DEAN BURCH decision dial switching equipment disparity effect equity exchange circuit plant exchange service Federal Communications Commission feeder lines hearing independent companies independent telephone companies interstate and intrastate interstate operations interstate service interstate telephone interstate toll rates interstate toll service intrastate intrastate and interstate jurisdiction LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGNUSON message minute mile million NARUC NICHOLAS JOHNSON North Carolina November percent present problem proceedings proposed Public Service Commission Public Utilities Commission rate base rate increases rate of return reduction in interstate regulation result revenue requirements Senator PASTORE Separations Manual separations procedures staff stand-by statement tele telephone rates telephone service telephone system telephone users tion toll circuits toll network toll rate reduction U.S. Senate WARREN G Washington
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Page 3 - Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per diem, including traveltime, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized in section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 2 - ... (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term; and (2) the terms of office of the members first taking office after the date of the enactment of this Act...
Page 68 - All relevant and timely comments and reply comments will be considered by the Commission before final action is taken in this proceeding. In reaching its decision in this proceeding, the Commission may also take into account other relevant information before it, in addition to the specific comments invited by this Notice.
Page 117 - The separation of the intrastate and interstate property, revenues and expenses of the company is important not simply as a theoretical allocation to two branches of the business. It is essential to the appropriate recognition of the competent governmental authority in each field of regulation.
Page 34 - The NARUC is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization founded in 1889. Within its membership are the governmental agencies of the 50 States and of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers.
Page 68 - In accordance with the provisions of Section 1.419 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations, an original and 14 copies of all comments, replies, pleadings, briefs or other documents filed in this proceeding shall be furnished to theCommission.
Page 70 - States in accordance with an arbitrary methodology dependent upon the age, density, and location, of plant as well as the particular assignment for usage; it does not change the basic problem of distribution of benefits. It simply distributes them in a different arbitrary manner. The second principal argument for changing the interexchange allocation procedures is to obtain the costs necessary for an economic comparison among the different technologies. Such an argument must be entirely fallacious....
Page 47 - Secretary shall direct, but at least once each year. "(d) The Secretary shall provide to the National Highway Safety Committee from among the personnel and facilities of the Department of Commerce such staff and facilities as are necessary to carry out the functions of such Committee.
Page 3 - Commission may prescribe. (d) In making a valuation of the property of any wire telephone carrier the Commission, after making the classification authorized in this section, may in its discretion value only that part of the property of such carrier determined to be used in interstate or foreign telephone toll service.
Page 70 - ... philosophy" of telephone separations. Nor is the primary question one of cost accounting method or of identifying separations principles with appropriate telephone engineering practice.