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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 20-1715

NOTICES

PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC
UTILITY COMMISSION

Petition of Hamilton Relay, Inc. for Extension of Waiver of Equal Access and Billing Option Requirements for Telephone Relay Service; Doc. No. P-2017-2596198

[50 Pa.B. 6971]
[Saturday, December 5, 2020]

 On September 23, 2020, at Docket No. P-2017-2596198, Hamilton Relay, Inc. (Hamilton), the certificated Pennsylvania Telephone Relay Service (TRS) provider, see A-2014-2447601, filed a Letter Petition requesting permanent extension of the waiver granted by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission) on September 21, 2017, and December 6, 2018. This waiver relates to certain provision of Hamilton's service obligations relating to long distance calls. Hamilton requests permanent waiver of these service obligations because the FCC found these rules to no longer be necessary to achieve functional equivalence between TRS users and users of voice communication services. See In the Matter of Telecommunications Relay Servs. & Speech-to-Speech Servs. for Individuals with Hearing & Speech Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03-123, 2020 WL 4569806, at *1 (Aug. 5, 2020).

 On September 23, 2020, the Letter Petition was served on the Office of Consumer Advocate, the Office of Small Business Advocate, the Commission's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement, counsel for the TRS Advisory Board, the Pennsylvania Telephone Association, Frontier Communications and Verizon.

 Interested persons may file comments on the proposed permanent waiver within 20 calendar days of the publication of this notice. Comments must reference Docket No. P-2017-2596198 and should be e-Filed through the Commission's e-Filing System per the Emergency Order dated March 20, 2020. Confidential comments should be e-mailed to Rosemary Chiavetta at rchiavetta@pa.gov. Individuals may set up a free eFiling account with the Commission at https://efiling.puc.pa.gov/.

 Where possible, an electronic copy of any filing should also be sent to Eric Jeschke at ejeschke@pa.gov and Christian McDewell at cmcdewell@pa.gov. The contact person for this petition is Christian McDewell, Assistant Counsel, Law Bureau, (717) 787-7466.

ROSEMARY CHIAVETTA, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 20-1715. Filed for public inspection December 4, 2020, 9:00 a.m.]


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