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AND UNITED TELEPHONE iCOMPANY OF KANSAS FILED A PETITION FOR WAIVER OF SECTION 61.41(C) xAND THE DEFINITION OF "STUDY AREA" CONTAINED IN THE APPENDIX= GLOSSARY OF PART 36 OF THE COMMISSION'S RULES  X '~  AAD 9773 Đc  X~ 4#XP\  P6QXP# #XP\  P6QXP# #6\  P6QАP#` `  ,hh]pp& #XP\  P6QXP#`(#/ Released: June 13, 1997 ă  XP' Comment Date: July 3, 1997  X9'Reply Date: ` ` July 14, 1997  x  On May 29, 1997, Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc. ("Rural") and United  !Telephone Company of Kansas ("United") filed a petition for waiver of the definition of "Study  !Area" as set forth in the AppendixGlossary of Part 36 of the Commission's rules. That definition  !constitutes a rule freezing all study area boundaries, effective November 15, 1984. Rural and  !}United seek to alter the boundaries of their existing Kansas study areas to reflect the sale of the Quinter and Wakeeney exchanges from United to Rural.     xIn addition, Rural seeks a waiver of Section 61.41(c) of the Commission's price cap rules,  !/47 C.F.R.  61.41, to exempt it from the price cap "all or nothing" rule. That rule requires non !_price cap companies, and the telephone companies with which they are affiliated, to become  !_subject to price cap regulation after acquiring a price cap company or any part thereof. The  !Irequested waiver would permit Rural to continue operating under rateofreturn regulation after  !Iacquiring the United exchanges which currently are under price cap regulation. The petitioners  !"submitted a letter from the Kansas Corporation Commission indicating that it does not object to  !the changes in the study area boundaries caused by transferring the exchanges from United to Rural.  X 4 x+Interested parties may file comments on the petition on or before July 3, 1997 , and reply  Xm!4 !comments on or before July 14, 1997 , with the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission,  !+1919 M Street, N.W., Room 222, Washington, D.C. 20554. Comments and reply comments  !should reference AAD 9773. Four (4) copies should also be sent to Adrian Wright, Competitive  ! Safeguards Branch, Common Carrier Bureau, Room 257, 2000 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.  !p20554, and one (1) copy should be sent to the Commission's contractor for public service record  !~duplication: International Transcription Service (ITS), 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 140,  !Washington, D.C. 20037. Copies of the petition may be obtained from the Accounting and  !EAudits Division's public reference room, Room 812, 2000 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Copies are also available from ITS at (202) 8573800.  xWe will treat this proceeding as permitbutdisclose proceeding for purposes of the  Xp+4 !Commission's ex parte rules. See generally, 47 C.F.R.  1.12001.1206. However, if thisp+,,,)e@d;[!%,L~ @@\ '#k @\ haEa  !waiver petition is opposed, it will be treated as a restricted proceeding under the Commission's  X4 !ex parte rules. See generally, 47 C.F.R.  1.1208. For further information contact Adrian Wright at (202) 4180840.  X4 Ã  X'X FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION