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- Access to directory assistance: means access to a service that includes, but is not limited to, making available to customers, upon request, information contained in directory listings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201
- Access to emergency services: means access to emergency services, as defined in Title 25, section 2921, subsection 5, through 9-1-1 or enhanced 9-1-1 service, as defined in Title 25, section 2921, subsection 6, to the extent a local government in the service area of a provider of last resort service provides 9-1-1 or enhanced 9-1-1 services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201
- Access to interexchange service: means the use of the wireline loop, as well as that portion of the switch that is paid for by the end user, or the functional equivalent of these network elements in the case of a wireless carrier, necessary to access an interexchange carrier's network. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201
- Access to operator services: means access to any automatic or live assistance by a consumer to arrange for billing for or completion of a telephone call or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Closing: means the time at which a nuclear power plant ceases to generate electricity and is retired from active service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Construction: means the installation of permanent equipment or structures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4372
- Customer: includes any person, government or governmental division which has applied for, been accepted and is currently receiving service from a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Decommissioning: means the series of activities undertaken beginning at the time of closing of a nuclear power plant to ensure that the final disposition of the site or any radioactive components or material, but not including spent fuel, associated with the plant is accomplished safely, in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352
- Decommissioning expenses: means the following:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352Decommissioning financing plan: means the plan approved by the commission under section 4353. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Decommissioning fund committee: means a committee established to have overall responsibility, as described in section 4354, for a decommissioning trust fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial. Dual-tone multifrequency signaling: means a method of signaling that facilitates the transportation of signaling through a network, shortening call set-up time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Emergency: means a situation in which property or human or animal life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7102 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Escrow account: means an account established under commission rules to hold funds collected under an interim decommissioning financing plan promulgated under section 4353, subsection 5, until a decommissioning trust fund is established or to hold funds for other temporary purposes under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller. Federal interconnection rights and obligations: means the rights and obligations of a telecommunications entity under 47 United States Code §§ 251 and 252 or any other provision of federal law or regulation governing telecommunications network facility interconnection or wholesale access rights and obligations to the extent the rights and obligations under the federal law or regulation may be regulated or overseen by the commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. fund: means a trust fund set up as prescribed in sections 4353 and 4355 to hold money for the eventual purpose of paying decommissioning expenses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs. High-level radioactive waste: means the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from that liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, determines by rule to require permanent isolations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4372 Incumbent local exchange carrier: means , with respect to an area, the local exchange carrier that on February 8, 1996 provided telephone exchange service in the area and:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Interexchange carrier: means any person, association, corporation or other entity that provides intrastate interexchange telecommunications services, including a local exchange carrier that provides interexchange service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Licensee: means the holder of the operating permit from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a nuclear power plant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Local usage: means an amount of minutes of use of exchange service within a certain area, prescribed by the commission, provided for a flat rate to end users. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Mobile telecommunications services: means telecommunications services licensed by the Federal Communications Commission for mobile use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Nuclear power plant: means a nuclear fission thermal power plant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4372 Owner: means any transmission and distribution utility that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant, whether directly or through ownership of stock in a company that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant or through membership in a holding company that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant or through other means. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Person: includes a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, association, trust, estate, any other legal entity or natural person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 plant: means a nuclear fission thermal power plant situated in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Premature closing: means the closing of a nuclear power plant before the projected date of decommissioning, as projected in the decommissioning financing plan under section 4353. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 price cap ILEC: means an incumbent local exchange carrier that agreed to accept Connect America Fund Phase II support pursuant to the Federal Communications Commission's Report and Order released on December 18, 2014, in In the Matter of Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7102 Prompt removal and dismantlement: means to immediately remove radioactive or radioactively contaminated material down to allowable residual levels which permit release of the property for unrestricted access. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Provider of last resort service: means a flat-rate service with voice grade access to the public switched telephone network; local usage within the basic service calling areas of incumbent local exchange carriers as of January 1, 2012; dual-tone multifrequency signaling or its functional equivalent; single-party service or its functional equivalent; access to emergency services; access to operator services; access to interexchange service; access to directory assistance; toll limitation for qualifying low-income customers; and the capacity to maintain uninterrupted voice service during a power failure, either through the incorporation into the network or network interface devices of suitable battery backup or through electric current. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Public switched telephone network: means the network of equipment, lines and controls assembled to establish communication paths between calling and called parties in North America. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Public utility: includes every gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility, transmission and distribution utility, telephone utility, water utility and ferry, as those terms are defined in this section, and each of those utilities is declared to be a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Service provider: means an entity designated as a provider of provider of last resort service under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. Single-party service: means telecommunications service that permits users to have exclusive use of a wireline subscriber loop or access line for each call placed or, in the case of wireless telecommunications carriers that use spectrum shared among users to provide service, a dedicated message path for the length of a user's particular transmission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Technology or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste: means a method for the permanent and terminal disposal of high-level nuclear waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4372 Telephone utility: includes every person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, that provides telephone service for compensation inside this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Toll limitation for qualifying low-income customers: means a service provided to customers of provider of last resort service that meet income qualifications established by the commission by rule that allows those customers:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Trustee: means a bank or trust company qualified to act as a fiduciary in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Voice grade access: means a functionality that offers a minimum bandwidth range of 300 to 3,000 hertz that enables a user of telecommunications services to transmit voice communications, including signaling the network that the caller wishes to place a call, and to receive voice communications, including receiving a signal indicating there is an incoming call. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Voice service provider: means any person providing, directly or indirectly, 2-way voice communications service for compensation in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72