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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 99-1476

NOTICES

Telecommunications

[29 Pa.B. 4645]

   P-00981444.  Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York, Inc., d/b/a Citizens Communications Services Company. Petition of Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York, Inc., d/b/a/ Citizens Communications Services Company for waiver of sections 3003 and 3006 of the Public Utility Code, 66 Pa.C.S. §§ 3003 and 3006. Petitioner submits, inter alia, that (1) it is a New York corporation providing local exchange telecommunications services primarily in New York with a portion of its rural service territory crossing the state line into Susquehanna County, PA; (2) its service territory is made up of 126 exchanges in New York with 304,907 access lines over 10,299 square miles and two exchanges in Pennsylvania with 1,330 access lines over 48 square miles; (3) it does not recognize the state boundary between New York and Pennsylvania for purposes of designing and implementing its network and any modernization thereto; (4) any and all network modernization implemented in its primary service area in New York is also automatically implemented in its Pennsylvania service area; (5) it has already achieved many of the network modernization goals set forth in 66 Pa.C.S. § 3003(b); (6) it continues to implement network modernization to satisfy the requirements of the New York Public Service Commission; (7) there is no central office located in its Pennsylvania service territory; (8) there are no public schools (including administrative offices), commercial/industrial parks, health care facilities, or County 911 centers located in its Pennsylvania service territory; and (9) it would be an administrative and financial burden to develop, file and litigate a Chapter 30 petition and plan for its Pennsylvania operations. For these reasons and others, Petitioner submits that it should not be required to file a Chapter 30 petition and plan.

   Interested parties may file comments concerning the petition with the Secretary, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, P. O. Box 3265, Harrisburg, PA 17105-3265. Comments are due on or before 10 days after the date of publication of this notice. Copies of the petition are on file with the Commission and are available for public inspection. The contact person is Maryanne Reynolds Martin, Assistant Counsel, at (717) 787-4518.

JAMES J. MCNULTY,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 99-1476. Filed for public inspection August 27, 1999, 9:00 a.m.]


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