**Before the**

**Federal Communications Commission**

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

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| In the Matter of                 | * | SLD-64128                    |
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| Request for Review of the        | ) | CC Docket No. 96-45          |
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|                                  | * | CC Docket No. 97-21          |
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**ORDER**

**Adopted: August 14, 2000 Released: August 15, 2000**

By the Accounting Policy Division, Common Carrier Bureau:

1.  The Accounting Policy Division (Division) has under consideration a
    Letter of Appeal filed on November 12, 1999, by Orleans/Niagara
    Board of Cooperative Educational Services (Orleans/Niagara), Medina,
    New York, requesting review of funding commitment decisions by the
    Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service
    Administrative Company.[^1] On March 9, 2000, in order to clarify
    its earlier decisions regarding Orleans/Niagara's application, SLD
    issued a revised Funding Commitment Decision Letter that granted
    Orleans/Niagara's funding requests at its requested discount
    level.[^2] Because the Division finds that the errors asserted by
    Orleans/Niagara in its Letter of Appeal have been corrected by SLD,
    the Division dismisses Orleans/Niagara's Letter of Appeal as moot.

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 appeal filed by
    Orleans/Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Medina,
    New York, on November 12, 1999 IS DISMISSED as moot.

    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

    Sharon L. Webber

Deputy Chief, Accounting Policy Division

Common Carrier Bureau

[^1]: Letter from Clark J. Godshall, Orleans/Niagara Board of
    Cooperative Educational Services, to the Federal Communications
    Commission, filed November 12, 1999 (Letter of Appeal).

[^2]: Letter from Schools and Libraries Division, Universal Service
    Administrative Company, to Michael Guido, Orleans/Niagara BOCES,
    dated March 9, 2000 (Funding Commitment Decision Letter).