New York PSC Renews State USF With Fresh Reporting Requirements
The New York Public Service Commission will renew state USF two years, said an order released Wednesday in case 15-M-0742. The PSC unanimously adopted a joint settlement that the New York Department of Public Service reached with Verizon, small ILECs…
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and the Public Utility Law Project (see 2011060038). State USF will expire Dec. 31, so the proposal would renew it for two more years from Jan. 1. The proposal “would preserve the administrative framework criteria for eligibility to receive disbursements and the obligations to provide funding that exist under the current” state USF and impose new data reporting requirements on recipients, “including detailed information on competitive wireline alternatives available in their service territories.” In another unanimous order posted in the same docket Wednesday, the PSC conditionally authorized nine small ILECs to recover from state USF revenue they lost due to the final stage of the phased reduction required by the FCC’s 2011 intercarrier compensation order.