Tariff Filings and Interconnection Agreements

PURPOSE: This rule identifies guidelines for filing tariffs and interconnection agreements. (1) Maintaining a tariff with the commission is discretionary for retail telecommunications services, as provided in section 392.461, RSMo. The commission’s website contains information about tariff format, as well as the process for cancelling and no longer maintaining a tariff. A telecommunications company must maintain a tariff for any commission-regulated wholesale service such as exchange access service. (2) Interconnection agreements are filed and maintained in EFIS as identified below. Additional filing instructions may be found on the commission’s website. (A) Interconnection agreement or amendment to an interconnection agreement not previously approved shall be filed in an application signed by an attorney licensed to practice law in Missouri. (B) An adoption of an approved interconnection agreement and any amendment that has been previously approved by the commission may be requested by filing a letter to the secretary of the commission. Approved interconnection agreements whose original term has expired, but which remain in effect pursuant to term renewal or extension provisions, are subject to adoption for as long as the interconnection agreement remains subject to the renewal or extension provisions. (C) Any adoption is subject to objection. The commission will send notice to the nonsigning party allowing twenty (20) days for objection. If no objection is filed, the adoption will be approved by the commission. If an objection is filed, the commission will determine whether the adoption should be approved or rejected. (D) The incumbent basic local exchange telecommunications company that is a party to any interconnection agreement that is terminated shall notify the secretary of the commission of its termination by filing a letter in a new case. AUTHORITY: sections 386.040, 386.250, 386.310, 392.450, and 392.461, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 240-28.013. Original rule filed April 12, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. Moved to 20 CSR 4240-28.013, effective Aug. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 386.040, RSMo 1939; 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996; 386.310, RSMo 1939, amended 1979, 1989, 1996; 392.450, RSMo 1987, amended 1996, 2008; and 392.461, RSMo 2011, amended 2013, 2014.