---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 36.381"
title: "47"
number: "36.381"
heading: "Carrier access charge billing and collecting expense."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/36.381"
---

# §36.381. Carrier access charge billing and collecting expense.

- (a) This classification includes the revenue accounting functions associated with the billing and collecting of access charges to interexchange carriers.
- (b) Of access charges other than end user common line access charges are assessed for the origination or termination of intrastate services in a particular state, one-half of such expense shall be apportioned to interstate operations. If no such access charges are assessed in a particular state, all such expense shall be assigned to interstate operations.
- (c) Effective July 1, 2001, through December 31, 2030, study areas subject to price cap regulation, pursuant to [§ 61.41](/cfr/47/61.41.md) of this chapter, shall assign the balance of Account 6620-Services to the Carrier access charge billing and collecting expense classification based on the relative percentage assignment of the balance of Account 6620 to that classification during the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2000.
- (d) Effective July 1, 2001, through December 31, 2030, all study areas shall apportion Carrier access charge billing and collecting expense among the jurisdictions using the allocation factor, pursuant to [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, for the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2000.

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 17229, May 6, 1987, as amended at 66 FR 33208, June 21, 2001; 75 FR 30301, June 1, 2010; 76 FR 30841, May 27, 2011; 79 FR 36239, June 26, 2014; 89 FR 92845, Nov. 25, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i) and (j), 201, 205, 220, 221(c), 254, 303(r), 403, 410, and 1302 unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 17229, May 6, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 17229, May 6, 1987, as amended at 66 FR 33208, June 21, 2001; 75 FR 30301, June 1, 2010; 76 FR 30841, May 27, 2011; 79 FR 36239, June 26, 2014; 89 FR 92845, Nov. 25, 2024]