Kentucky Public Service Commission

Final Order Entered: 1. Ballard's proposed increases in basic local exchange residential and business service rates, as set forth in the tariffs attached to its Application filed March 16, 2016, and shown in the Appendix attached to this Order, are approved. 2. Within 20 days of the date of this Order, Ballard shall file, using the Commission's electronic Tariff Filing System, its revised tariff sheets containing the rates approved herein and signed by an officer of the utility authorized to issue tariffs. The tariff sheets shall reflect that they were approved pursuant to this Order and shall contain an effective date of June 1, 2016. 3. Any future increases to basic local exchange rates necessitated by the FCC's ICC/USF Order shall be filed as an Application in compliance with Commission regulations.

Order Entered: 1. Ballard Telephone's petition for confidential treatment is granted. 2. The materials for which Ballard Telephone seeks confidential treatment shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of five years from the date of this Order, or until further Order of this Commission. 3. Use of the materials in question in this proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Ballard Telephone shall inform the Commission if the materials in question become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect materials granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the materials have been granted confidential treatment has not run, Ballard Telephone shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the materials still fall within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Ballard Telephone is unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the requested materials available for inspection for 20 days following an Order finding that the materials no longer qualify for confidential treatment in order to allow Ballard Telephone to seek a remedy afforded by law. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection.

Order Entered: Ballard Telephone's request for a deviation from the filing requirements of 807 KAR 5:001, Sections 16(4)(b), 16(4)(h), 16(4)(i), 16(4)(n), 16(4)(q), 16(4)(r), and 16(5), is granted. 2. Ballard Telephone's 2014 annual financial report on file with the Commission is incorporated into the record by reference only. 3. Ballard Telephone's application is deemed filed as of the date of this Order.

Acknowledge Receipt of Filing

Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. Application for a General Adjustment in Rates, Motion for Waiver, and Petition for Confidential Treatment

Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. Application for a General Adjustment in Rates, Motion for Waiver, and Petition for Confidential Treatment

Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. Application for a General Adjustment in Rates, Motion for Waiver, and Petition for Confidential Treatment

Acknowledge Receipt of Filing

Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. Notice of Intent to File Application for a General Adjustment in Rates