**Before the**

**Federal Communications Commission**

**Washington, DC 20554**

In the Matter of )

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Request for Review of the )

Decision of the )

Universal Service Administrator by )

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Half Hollow Hills School District ) File No. SLD- 144251

Dix Hills, New York )

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Federal-State Joint Board on ) CC Docket No. 96-45

Universal Service )

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Changes to the Board of Directors of the ) CC Docket No. 97-21

National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. )

**order**

**Adopted: February 9, 2001 Released: February 12, 2001**

By the Accounting Policy Division, Common Carrier Bureau:

1.  This Order dismisses the Request for Review filed by Half Hollow
    Hills School District (Half Hollow), Dix Hills, New York, seeking
    review of a decision issued by the Universal Service Administrative
    Company's Schools and Libraries Division on May 8, 2000.[^1] The
    Commission received Half Hollow's Request for Review on December 22,
    2000.[^2] Under section 54.720 of the Commission's rules, any such
    appeal must be filed within 30 days of the issuance of the decision
    as to which review is sought.[^3] Documents are considered to be
    filed with the Commission only upon receipt.[^4] Because the instant
    Request for Review was not filed within the specified 30-day period,
    it will be dismissed without further consideration.

2.  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 Request for Review
    filed December 22, 2000, by Half Hollow Hills School District, Dix
    Hills, New York, IS DISMISSED.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Mark G. Seifert

Deputy Chief, Accounting Policy Division

Common Carrier Bureau

[^1]: *See* Letter from the Schools and Libraries Division, Universal
    Service Administrative Co., to Charles T. Bevington, Half Hollow
    Hills School District, dated May 8, 2000.

[^2]: Letter from Hal Blum, to Federal Communications Commission, filed
    December 22, 2000 (Request for Review). Half Hollow asserts that it
    submitted a timely appeal to the Commission, and provides a copy of
    a letter dated May 25, 2000 that appears to be a request for review
    of SLD's initial decision letter addressed to the Commission. Our
    records, however, do not indicate that such a request was filed. The
    proffered copy of the May 25, 2000 letter, without more, is
    insufficient to demonstrate that an appeal was timely filed with the
    Commission. *See Request for Review of the Decision of the Universal
    Service Administrator by Pediatric Library of Rainbow Babies and
    Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, Federal-State Joint Board on
    Universal Service, Changes to the Board of Directors of the National
    Exchange Carrier Association, Inc*., File No. SLD-23380, CC Dockets
    No. 96-45 and 97-21, Order, 15 FCC Rcd 3416 (Common Carrier Bur.
    1999). We note that, in certain situations, we would consider a
    date-stamped postal return receipt to be persuasive evidence that a
    communication had in fact been received by the Commission.

[^3]: 47 C.F.R. § 54.720.

[^4]: 47 C.F.R. § 1.7.