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76218 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 242 / Tuesday, December 17, 2013 / Rules and Regulations ■ 4. Section 155.410 is amended by (d) Premium payment. Regarding intermediate providers. Covered revising paragraph (c)(1) to read as premium payment, a QHP issuer— providers must file quarterly reports and follows: (1) Must, follow the premium retain the call detail records for at least payment process established by the six calendar months. The Report and § 155.410 Initial and annual open Exchange in accordance with § 155.240. Order also allows qualifying providers enrollment periods. (2) Must, for QHPs offered through a to certify that they meet the conditions * * * * * Federally-facilitated Exchange, establish for a Safe Harbor that would reduce (c) * * * the date by which a qualified individual reporting and retention obligations. In (1) Regular effective dates. For a QHP that has selected a QHP within the addition, the Commission has delegated selection received by the Exchange from enrollment period dates in § 155.410(b) to the Wireline Competition Bureau, in a qualified individual— of this subchapter must make a consultation with the Enforcement (i) On or before December 23, 2013, premium payment in order to effectuate Bureau, the authority to act on requests the Exchange must ensure a coverage coverage by the applicable coverage from qualified providers for waiver of effective date of January 1, 2014. effective date, provided that: these rules. The Report and Order also (ii) Between the first and fifteenth day (i) The payment date is no earlier than adopts a rule prohibiting all originating of any subsequent month during the the day before the coverage effective and intermediate providers from initial open enrollment period, the date. causing audible ringing to be sent to the Exchange must ensure a coverage (ii) The payment date policy is caller before the terminating provider effective date of the first day of the applied consistently to all applicants in has signaled that the called party is following month. a non-discriminatory manner. being alerted. (iii) Between the sixteenth and last * * * * * DATES: Effective January 16, 2014 except day of the month for any month for § 64.2201 of the Commission’s rules, between January 2014 and March 31, Dated: December 4, 2013. Marilyn Tavenner, which will become effective January 31, 2014 or between the twenty-fourth and 2014, and §§ 64.2103, 64.2105, and the thirty-first of the month of December Administrator, Centers for Medicare & 64.2107 and the information collection Medicaid Services. 2013, the Exchange must ensure a in paragraph 67 of this Report and coverage effective date of the first day of Approved: December 5, 2013. Order, which contains information the second following month. Kathleen Sebelius, collection requirements that have not (iv) Notwithstanding the requirement Secretary, Department of Health and Human been approved by Office of Management of paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section, an Services. and Budget. The Federal Exchange or SHOP operated by a State [FR Doc. 2013–29918 Filed 12–12–13; 4:15 pm] Communications Commission will may require a January 1, 2014 effective BILLING CODE 4120–01–P publish a document in the Federal date for plan selection dates later than Register announcing the effective date December 23, 2013; a SHOP may also of §§ 64.2103, 64.2105, and 64.2107. establish plan selection dates as early as FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: December 15, 2013 for enrollment in COMMISSION Gregory D. Kwan, Competition Policy SHOP QHPs for a January 1, 2014 Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, coverage effective date. 47 CFR Part 64 at (202) 418–1191. (v) Notwithstanding the regular SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: effective dates set forth in this section, [WC Docket No. 13–39; FCC 13–135] This is a summary of the Commission’s Report an Exchange may allow issuers to Rural Call Completion provide for a coverage effective date of and Order in WC Docket No. 13–39, January 1, 2014 for plan selections AGENCY: Federal Communications FCC 13–135, released on November 8, received after December 23, 2013 and on Commission. 2013. The complete text of this document is available for public or before January 31, 2014, if a QHP ACTION: Final rule. issuer is willing to accept such inspection during regular business enrollments. SUMMARY: In this document the Federal hours in the FCC Reference Information Communications Commission Center, Room CY–A257, 445 12th Street * * * * * (Commission) improves its ability to SW., Washington, DC 20554. It is also PART 156—HEALTH INSURANCE monitor problems with completing calls available on the Commission’s Web site ISSUER STANDARDS UNDER THE to rural areas, and enforce restrictions at http://www.fcc.gov. This summarizes AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, INCLUDING against blocking, choking, reducing, or only the Report and Order in WC Docket STANDARDS RELATED TO restricting calls. The Report and Order No. 13–39; A summary of the EXCHANGES applies the new rules to providers of Commission’s Further Notice of long-distance voice service that make Proposed Rulemaking in WC Docket No. ■ 5. The authority citation for part 156 the initial long-distance call path choice 13–39 is published elsewhere in this continues to read as follows: for more than 100,000 domestic retail issue of the Federal Register. Authority: Title I of the Affordable Care subscriber lines, counting the total of all Synopsis of Report and Order business and residential fixed Act, Sections 1301–1304, 1311–1312, 1321, I. Introduction 1322, 1324, 1334, 1341–1343, and 1401– subscriber lines and mobile phones and 1402, Pub. L. 111–148, 124 Stat. 119 (42 aggregated over all of the providers’ 1. In this Order, we adopt rules to U.S.C. 18042). affiliates (referred to herein as ‘‘covered address significant concerns about ■ 6. Section 156.265 is amended by providers’’). In most cases, this is the completion of long-distance calls to revising paragraph (d) to read as calling party’s long-distance provider. rural areas. Doing so will help ensure follows: Covered providers include LECs, that long-distance calls to all interexchange carriers (IXCs), Americans, including rural Americans, § 156.265 Enrollment process for qualified commercial mobile radio service are completed. The record in this individuals. (CMRS) providers, and VoIP service proceeding leaves no doubt that * * * * * providers. These rules do not apply to completion rates for long-distance calls VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:00 Dec 16, 2013 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\17DER1.SGM 17DER1 wreier-aviles on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with RULES Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 242 / Tuesday, December 17, 2013 / Rules and Regulations 76219 to rural areas are frequently poor— • Held a workshop to identify service. 47 U.S.C. 153(36). Our use of whether the call is significantly delayed, specific causes of rural call completion the term ‘‘one-way VoIP’’ in this Order the called party’s phone never rings, the problems and discuss potential is consistent with the definition of caller hears false busy signals, or there solutions with key stakeholders; ‘‘non-interconnected VoIP service’’ in are other problems. These failures have • Established dedicated avenues for the Communications Act, to the extent significant and immediate public rural consumers and carriers to inform such service offers the capability to interest ramifications, causing rural the Commission about call completion place calls to or receive calls from the businesses to lose customers, cutting problems; and PSTN. families off from their relatives in rural • Investigated and pursued 6. In addition, the Commission areas, and creating potential for enforcement of providers not complying adopted rules to address so-called dangerous delays in public safety with the statute and/or our rules, ‘‘phantom traffic,’’ that is, traffic that communications in rural areas. including a consent decree as well as an terminating networks receive that lacks 2. The rules that we adopt today are enforcement advisory regarding rural certain identifying information for calls. a critical step to eliminating this call completion problems. The lack of such basic information to significant problem by improving the We describe in greater detail the accompany calls has also resulted in Commission’s ability to monitor the Commission’s most significant actions, calls being delivered without the correct delivery of long-distance calls to rural which inform the legal and policy caller identification, which is a common areas, aiding enforcement action in actions that we take in this Order. call quality complaint in rural areas. In the USF/ICC Transformation Order, the connection with providers’ call 4. USF/ICC Transformation Order. On Commission found that service completion practices as necessary, as November 18, 2011, the Commission providers in the call path were well as aiding consumers and industry released the USF/ICC Transformation intentionally removing or altering by adopting a rule prohibiting false ring Order, which, among other things, identifying information to avoid paying signaling. In the Further Notice of established a number of new rules the terminating rates that would apply Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), we requiring carriers to adjust, over a if the call were accurately signaled and seek comment on additional measures period of years, many of their billed. The Commission adopted rules that may help the Commission ensure a terminating switched access charges requiring
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