Before the

**Federal Communications Commission**

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

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| In the Matter of                 | * | SLD-191173                   |
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| Request for Review of the        | ) | SLD-193981                   |
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| Universal Service Administrative |   | 196529, 196850               |
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|                                  | * | CC Docket No. 96-45          |
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|                                  |   | CC Docket No. 97-21          |
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**ORDER**

**Adopted: February 16, 2001 Released: February 20, 2001**

By the Accounting Policy Division, Common Carrier Bureau:

1.  The Accounting Policy Division (Division) has under consideration
    the above-captioned Requests for Waiver.[^1] The applicants each
    request a waiver of decisions by the Schools and Libraries Division
    (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company to deny
    funding under the schools and libraries universal service funding
    mechanism.[^2] SLD rejected the funding requests because the
    applicants missed the filing window deadline for submitting their
    FCC Form 471 applications.[^3] The applicants contend that they were
    unable to file their applications electronically on the evening of
    January 19, 2000, the last day of the filing window for Year 3 (July
    1, 2000-June 30, 2001) of the program, because the SLD server failed
    and applications therefore were not accepted at that time.[^4] The
    applicants request that their applications be considered timely
    filed due to the server problem.

2.  On June 8, 2000, the Commission directed SLD to waive the filing
    window deadline for certain applicants whose FCC Forms 471 were
    rejected as untimely because of the server failure.[^5] In
    accordance with that Order, SLD has notified the above-captioned
    applicants individually that it would consider their late-filed
    applications as having been filed inside the filing window.[^6]
    Therefore, the Division dismisses these Requests for Waiver as moot.

3.  ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to authority delegated under
    sections 0.91, 0.291, and 54.722(a) of the Commission\'s rules, 47
    C.F.R. §§ 0.91, 0.291, and 54.722(a), that the above-captioned
    Requests for Waiver are DISMISSED.

    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

    Katherine L. Schroder

Chief, Accounting Policy Division

Common Carrier Bureau

[^1]: Letter from Sara Ginsberg, Chabad Academy of Myrtle Beach, to the
    Federal Communications Commission, filed July 3, 2000; Letter from
    Beverly I. White, Greenville County School District, to the Federal
    Communications Commission, filed July 5, 2000; Letter from Susan
    Poling, Jasper City Schools, to the Federal Communications
    Commission, filed June 16, 2000; Letter from Rita Dixon, Whittier
    City School District, to the Federal Communications Commission,
    filed June 22, 2000.

[^2]: *See* 47 C.F.R. § 54.500 *et seq.*

[^3]: *See, e.g.,* Letter from Schools and Libraries Division, Universal
    Service Administrative Company, to Sara Ginsberg, Chabad Academy of
    Myrtle Beach, dated June 2, 2000 (Administrator's Decision on
    Appeal).

[^4]: *See, e.g.,* Letter from Sara Ginsberg, Chabad Academy of Myrtle
    Beach, to the Federal Communications Commission, filed July 3, 2000.

[^5]: *Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service*, *Universal
    Service Support for Eligible Schools and Libraries, Year 3 Filing
    Window*, CC Docket No. 96-45, Order, 15 FCC Rcd 13932 (2000).

[^6]: *See, e.g.,* Letter from Schools and Libraries Division, Universal
    Service Administrative Company, to Sara Ginsberg, Chabad Academy of
    Myrtle Beach, dated June 29, 2000.