Latitude is proud to offer a wide array of regulatory consulting services that can be combined into a customized, comprehensive package or offered on an a la carte or as-needed basis. Here are many of the services currently being offered:
- Jurisdictional Part 36 and 69 Separated Cost Studies:
- Perform/file annual cost studies with NECA
- Submit monthly preliminaries (DMEs/DMAs) to NECA
- Cable & Wire Facilities Basic Study
- Business Office Factors Development
- Annual cost data forecasts required by NECA
- “What If” analyses to determine impacts of investment/expense decisions
- Develop/provide other data/information as required by NECA
- FCC/USAC filings required for federal USF high-cost support:
- CAF-ICC Data Collections
- High Cost Loop (HCL) submissions
- “What If” analyses to determine impacts of investment/expense decisions
- Monitor activity and prepare/file quarterly HCL updates, when appropriate
- FCC Form 481 Annual Reporting
- FCC Forms (499Q, 499A, 497, 507, etc.)
- Depreciation Analysis and Monitoring:
- Analyze current depreciation rates and status of depreciation reserve
- Monitor plant activity to assess need for depreciation rate changes
- Provide depreciation impacts associated with future plant investment and retirement decisions, as well as associated NECA/USF impacts
- Regulated/Non-Regulated Cost Allocations and Time Reporting:
- Review existing Cost Allocations Manual and procedures
- Assist with development of initial/alternative allocation procedures
- Meet with management/employees to discuss/modify time reporting practices
- NECA Average Schedules
- Local rate case feasibility analyses and rate filings
- Earnings monitoring & analyses
- LERG and NECA Tariff 4 updating
- Monthly NPA/NXX activity reports
- NRUF Utilization Reports (Number Utilization)
- Assistance with State Commission reporting requirements
- Federal and State Regulatory Compliance Issues
- Other special projects, customized to the client