Appendix 1: Regulatory Impact Summary Table*
Fiscal Costs	FY 2019	FY 2020	FY 2021	
State Government	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	
Local Government	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	
Small Businesses	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	
Non-Small Businesses	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	
Other Person	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	
Total Fiscal Costs:	$9,143.997	$9,293.958	$9,446,379	
				
Fiscal Benefits				
State Government	$0	$0	$0	
Local Government	$0	$0	$0	
Small Businesses	$0	$0	$0	
Non-Small Businesses	$0	$0	$0	
Other Persons	$0	$0	$0	
Total Fiscal Benefits:	$0	$0	$0	
				
Net Fiscal Benefits:	$Unknown	$Unknown	$Unknown	

*This table only includes fiscal impacts that could be measured.  If there are inestimable fiscal impacts, they will not be included in this table.  Inestimable impacts for State Government, Local Government, Small Businesses and Other Persons are described above.  Inestimable impacts for Non-Small Businesses are described below.
The PSC does not have access to information on surcharge collections by level of government, business type, or by residential versus non-residential classification. While we know the total number of telephone lines for which the surcharge is remitted, the telephone providers have no legal obligation to provide to the PSC the commercially sensitive data related to which lines are residential, commercial, governmental, etc. The PSC has assumed that the surcharge collections on connections will increase in direct proportion to typical population growth (currently estimated to be 1.64% per year). The proposed rule change increases the per connection surcharge by 24 cents per month for each telephone line or connection. The amounts under Total Fiscal Costs are calculated by multiplying 24 cents times the total expected number of telephone lines, based on recent historical UUSF surcharge collections. The need for this change is to keep the Utah Universal Service Fund solvent, now that the PSC has made other changes to Fund distributions as required by S.B. 130 (2017). The benefits from those changes, primarily increased distributions to Utah’s rural telephone providers, have already been implemented through administrative proceedings, and this surcharge increase is necessary to allow the Fund to continue making those monthly distributions. All surcharges and distributions must support the purposes of Utah Code Title 54-8b-15.

Appendix 2: Regulatory Impact to Non-Small Businesses
Appendix 2: There are no measurable potential impacts on specific categories of businesses from this rule amendment that increases the Utah Universal Service Fund surcharge from $0.36 per month to $0.60 per month. The monthly surcharge is imposed on each telephone access line or connection, regardless of whether the line or connection is for residential, business, or governmental use. 

PSC Chair Thad LeVar has reviewed and approved this fiscal analysis.

R746-8-301.  Calculation and Application of UUSF Surcharge.
	(1)  The Utah Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund (UUSF) shall be funded as follows:
	(a)  Unless Subsection R746-8-301(3) applies, providers shall remit to the Commission $0.[36]60 per month per access line that, as of the last calendar day of each month, has a place of primary use in Utah in accordance with the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U.S.C. Sec. 116 et seq.
	(b)(i)  "Place of primary use" means the street address representative of where the customer's use of the telecommunications service primarily occurs.
	(ii)  A provider of mobile telecommunications service shall consider the customer's place of primary use to be the customer's residential street address or primary business street address.
	(iii)  A provider of non-mobile telecommunications service shall consider the customer's place of primary use to be:
	(A)  the customer's residential street address or primary business street address; or
	(B)  the customer's registered location for 911 purposes.
	(c)  A provider may collect the surcharge:
	(i)  as an explicit charge to each end-user; or
	(ii)  through inclusion of the surcharge within the end-user's rate plan.
	(d)  A provider that offers a multi-line service shall apply the surcharge to each concurrent real-time voice communication call session that an end-user can place to or receive from the public switched telephone network.
	(e)(i)  A provider that offers prepaid access lines or connections that permit access to the public telephone network shall remit to the Commission $0.[36]60 per month per access line for such service (new access lines or connections, or recharges for existing lines or connections) purchased on or after January 1, 2018.
	(ii)  Subsection R746-8-301(1)(e)(i) operates in lieu of Subsection R746-8-301(1)(a) in that a provider who is required to make a remittance for an access line under Subsection R746-8-301(1)(e)(i) is not required to make an additional remittance for the same access line under Subsection R746-8-301(1)(a).
	(iii)(A)  Multiple recharges of a single prepaid access line during a single month do not trigger multiple remittance requirements.
	(B)  $0.[36]60 per month is both the maximum and minimum amount of remittance necessary for any single access line.
	(2)(a)  A provider shall remit to the Commission no less than 98.69 percent of its total monthly surcharge collections.
	(b)  A provider may retain a maximum of 1.31 percent of its total monthly surcharge collections to offset the costs of administering this rule.
	(3)(a)  Subject to Subsection R746-8-301(3)(b), a provider may omit the UUSF surcharge with respect to an access line that is described in Subsection R746-8-301(1), and:
	(i)  generates revenue that is subject to a universal service fund surcharge in a state other than Utah for the relevant month for which the provider omits the UUSF surcharge;
	(ii)  for the relevant month for which the provider omits the UUSF surcharge, was not used to access Utah intrastate telecommunications services; or
	(iii)  subject to R746-8-403(5), receives subsidization through a federal Lifeline program approved by the FCC.
	(b)  A provider that omits any UUSF surcharge pursuant to Subsection R746-8-301(3)(a) shall:
	(i)  maintain documentation for at least 36 months that the omission complied with Subsection R746-8-301(3)(a); and
	(ii)  consent to any audit of the documentation requested by the:
	(A)  Commission; or
	(B)  Division of Public Utilities.
	(c)  A provider who omits any UUSF surcharge pursuant to Subsection R746-8-301(3)(a) shall report monthly to the Division of Public Utilities, using a method approved by the Division, the number of omissions claimed pursuant to each Subsection R746-8-301(3)(a)(i) and R746-8-301(3)(a)(ii).

KEY:  Utah universal service fund, surcharges and disbursements, speech/hearing challenges, assistive devices and technology
Date of Enactment or Last Substantive Amendment:  December 24, 2018
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law:  54-3-1; 54-4-1; 54-8b-15; 54-8b-10