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91_SB0382
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1 AN ACT concerning local loop telecommunications
2 facilities.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding
6 Sections 13-216, 13-217, and 13-508.2 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/13-216 new)
8 Sec. 13-216. Local loop. "Local loop" means all of the
9 physical facilities existing between the central office and
10 the premises of an end user that are necessary to provide
11 telecommunications services to an end user including:
12 (1) the central office itself;
13 (2) network interface devices;
14 (3) distribution and feeder facilities;
15 (4) the point of termination of distribution and
16 feeder facilities at the central office;
17 (5) interconnection and points of termination with
18 other equipment in the central office including switches,
19 multiplexors, digital cross-connects, DLC equipment (e.g.
20 Litespan 2000 with GR303 capability), fiber optic
21 terminals, and other facilities;
22 (6) all rights of ways and poles, ducts, or conduit
23 used in the provision of loops;
24 (7) all vehicles and other equipment necessary to
25 install and maintain the loop plant;
26 (8) all operational support systems used in
27 pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, maintaining,
28 repairing, and billing the transport facilities.
29 (220 ILCS 5/13-217 new)
30 Sec. 13-217. Incumbent local exchange carrier. "Incumbent
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1 local exchange carrier" means a local exchange
2 telecommunications carrier as defined by Section 251(h)(1) of
3 the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.
4 (220 ILCS 5/13-508.2 new)
5 Sec. 13-508.2. Local loop divestiture.
6 (a) On or before the July 1, 1999, the Commission shall
7 initiate a proceeding, naming as respondents all incumbent
8 local exchange carriers with more than 35,000 subscriber
9 access lines. After notice and hearing, the Commission shall
10 order the respondent incumbent local exchange carrier or
11 carriers to divest itself or themselves of ownership and
12 control of local loop facilities and take other action as
13 necessary to prevent predatory and discriminatory practices
14 in the provisioning and interconnection with local loop
15 facilities. The Commission shall:
16 (1) determine the book value of facilities and
17 assets to be divested;
18 (2) determine adequate compensation, based on book
19 value, for shareholders of the incumbent local exchange
20 telecommunications carrier;
21 (3) oversee the transfer of local loop facilities
22 and assets to another entity, which shall become an
23 incumbent local exchange carrier, subject to the
24 jurisdiction of the Commission.
25 (4) complete the proceeding no later than July 1,
26 2000.
27 (b) The incumbent local exchange carrier that has been
28 divested of its local loop facilities and assets shall have
29 access to local loop facilities and assets on the same terms
30 and conditions as any other telecommunications carrier.
31 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
32 becoming law.