# Petitions for Waiver of 6.5 Percent Price Cap Local Exchange Carrier X-Factor
**AGENCY:**
Federal Communications Commission.
**ACTION:**
Notice; termination of proceedings.
**SUMMARY:**
This document is a notification of final termination of the petitions for waiver of the 6.5 percent productivity-based “X-factor” for price cap local exchange carriers adopted by the Commission in a 1997 order. The petitions for waiver have been withdrawn by the petitioners. No oppositions to the prior notice of terminations were received; therefore, interested parties are hereby notified that these proceedings have been terminated.
**DATES:**
These proceedings were terminated effective September 16, 2004.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Jennifer McKee, Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division, (202) 418-1530.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
On August 5, 2004, the Wireline Competition Bureau's Pricing Policy Division issued a Public Notice that the proceedings addressing the Citizens and SNET petitions for waiver of the 6.5 percent X-factor would be terminated effective 30 days after publication of the Public Notice in the *Federal Register* , unless the Bureau received oppositions to the terminations before that date. The notice was published in the *Federal Register* on August 17, 2004. *See* 69 FR 51079, August 17, 2004. The Bureau did not receive any oppositions to the terminations of these proceedings within 30 days of Federal Register publication of the notice; therefore, these proceedings were terminated as of September 16, 2004.
**Authority:**
47 U.S.C. 152, 153, 154, 155; 44 FR 18501, 67 FR 13223, 47 CFR 0.291, 1.749.
Federal Communications Commission.
Michelle M. Carey,
Acting Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau.