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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  02-  397 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  DC  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of  )  ) 
 Requests  for  Review  of  the  )  Decision  of  the  ) 
 Universal  Service  Administrator  by  )  ) 
 Arlington  County  Public  Library  )  File  No.  SLD-  265004  Arlington,  Virginia  ) 
 )  Boone  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220067 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Braxton  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220068  Cleveland,  Ohio  ) 
 )  Brooke  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220071 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Charles  Gibson  Public  Library  )  File  No.  SLD-  267921  Buckhannon,  West  Virginia  ) 
 )  Chawanakee  Joint  Elementary  School  )  File  No.  SLD-  229391 
 North  Fork,  California  )  ) 
 Fairfax  County  Public  Schools  )  File  No.  SLD-  266045  Arlington,  Virginia  ) 
 )  Fayetteville  Public  Library  )  File  No.  SLD-  229568 
 Fayetteville,  Arkansas  )  ) 
 General  George  Patton  School  District  No.  133  )  File  No.  SLD-  256841  Riverdale,  Illinois  ) 
 )  Greenbrier  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220083 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Jefferson  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220093  Cleveland,  Ohio  ) 
 )  Madera  Unified  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  230938 
 Washington,  DC  )  ) 
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 Marshall  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220105  Cleveland,  Ohio  ) 
 )  Massillon  City  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220108 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Minneapolis  Special  School  District  No.  1  )  File  Nos.  SLD-  246006,  225073,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota  )  257346,  258498 
 )  Monroe  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220667 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Nicholas  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220670  Cleveland,  Ohio  ) 
 )  Oklahoma  City  Public  Schools  )  File  No.  SLD-  262187 
 Oklahoma  City,  Oklahoma  )  ) 
 Prince  Georges  County  Public  Schools  )  File  No.  SLD-  199306  Arlington,  Virginia  ) 
 )  Putnam  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  249375 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Randolph  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220675  Cleveland,  Ohio  ) 
 )  Randolph  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  253456 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Rochester  Public  Schools  )  File  No.  SLD-  215714  Rochester,  Minnesota  ) 
 )  Summers  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220678 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Texas  School  for  the  Blind  and  Visually  Impaired  )  File  No.  SLD-  258861  Austin,  Texas  ) 
 )  Upshur  County  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  220681 
 Cleveland,  Ohio  )  ) 
 Virginia  Department  of  Education  )  File  Nos.  SLD-  270104,239181,  Richmond,  Virginia  )  260964,255954,255882,256005, 
 )  256035,256073,255762,260030,  )  259645,261325,261383,261548, 
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 )  261285,261162,262784,243642,  )  229710,249166,264743,259624, 
 )  249567,275097,217919,231117,  )  236216,  252298,252525,237614, 
 )  257127,252376,256402,260330,  )  267220,126516,25682,126556, 
 )  26505,126530  ) 
 Wilcox  County  Board  of  Education  )  File  No.  SLD-  147046  Camden,  Alabama  ) 
 )  Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  )  CC  Docket  No.  96-  45 
 Universal  Service  )  ) 
 Changes  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  )  CC  Docket  No.  97-  21  National  Exchange  Carrier  Association,  Inc.  ) 


 ORDER 
 Adopted:  February  21,  2002  Released:  February  22,  2002 
 By  the  Accounting  Policy  Division,  Common  Carrier  Bureau: 
 1.  The  Accounting  Policy  Division  (Division)  has  under  consideration  the  above-captioned  Requests  for  Review  of  decisions  issued  by  the  Schools  and  Libraries  Division  (SLD) 
 of  the  Universal  Service  Administrative  Company.  1  These  requests  seek  review  of  SLD  decisions  pursuant  to  section  54.719(  c)  of  the  Commissions  rules.  2 


 1  Letter  from  Ann  Friedman,  Arlington  County  Public  Library,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Boone  County  School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Braxton  County  School  District,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf 


 of  Brooke  County  School  District,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Denise  Weese,  Charles  Gibson  Public  Library,  filed  September  20,  2001;  Letter  from  David  A.  OConnor,  Chawanakee  Joint  Elementary  School,  filed 
 September  6,  2001;  Letter  from  Orin  R.  Heend,  Fairfax  County  Public  Schools,  filed  September  6,  2001;  Letter  from  Steven  Thomas,  Fayetteville  Public  Library,  filed  September  12,  2001;  Letter  from  Robert  Charnot,  General  George 
 Patton  School  District  No.  133,  filed  September  10,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Greenbrier  County  School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Jefferson  County 
 School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  David  A.  OConnor,  Madera  Unified  School  District,  filed  September  10,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Marshall  County  School  District,  filed 
 September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Massillon  City  School  District,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Carol  R.  Johnson,  Minneapolis  Special  School  District  No.  1,  filed  September  10,  2001;  Letter 
 from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Monroe  County  School  District,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Nicholas  County  School  District,  filed  September  26,  2001;  Letter  from  Orin  R. 
 Heend,  Oklahoma  City  Public  Schools,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Orin  R.  Heend,  Prince  Georges  County  Public  Schools,  filed  October  2,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Putnam  County 
 School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Randolph  County  School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Randolph  School  District,  filed 
 September  10,  2001;  Letter  from  Paul  Bourgeois,  Rochester  Public  Schools,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from 
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 2.  The  Commissions  rules  provide  that  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau  (Bureau)  must  issue  a  decision  resolving  a  request  for  review  of  matters  properly  before  it  within  ninety  (90) 
 days  unless  the  time  period  is  extended.  3  The  Bureau  extended  by  sixty  (60)  days  the  time  period  for  considering  the  Requests  for  Review.  4  The  Bureau  requires  additional  time  to  review 
 the  issues  presented.  Accordingly,  we  extend  by  an  additional  thirty  (30)  days  the  deadline  by  which  the  Bureau  must  take  action  regarding  the  instant  Requests  for  Review  of  decisions  by  the 
 Schools  and  Libraries  Division.  5 
 3.  Accordingly,  IT  IS  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  section  54.724(  a)  of  the  Commission's  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.    54.724(  a),  that  the  time  period  for  taking  action  in  the  above-  captioned 


 Requests  for  Review  IS  EXTENDED  BY  an  additional  thirty  (30)  days  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Arlington  County  Public  Library,  Arlington,  Virginia;  to  March  4, 
 2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Boone  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Braxton  County  School  District,  Cleveland, 
 Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Brooke  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  21,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Charles  Gibson  Public 
 Library,  Buckhannon,  West  Virginia;  to  March  6,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Chawanakee  Joint  Elementary  School  District,  North  Fork,  California;  to  March  6,  2002,  for  the 
 Request  for  Review  filed  by  Fairfax  County  Public  Schools,  Arlington,  Virginia;  to  March  11,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Fayetteville  Public  Library,  Fayetteville,  Arkansas;  to 
 March  7,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  General  George  S.  Patton  School  District  No.  133,  Riverdale,  Illinois;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Greenbrier 
 County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Jefferson  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  11,  2002,  for  the  Request  for 
 Review  filed  by  Madera  Unified  School  District,  Washington,  DC;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Marshall  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4, 
 2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Massillon  City  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  7,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Minneapolis  Special  School  District  No.  1, 
 Minneapolis,  Minnesota;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Monroe  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  27,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by 
 Nicholas  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review 


 Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Summers  County  School  District,  filed  September  17,  2001;  Letter  from  Craig  A.  Abbe,  Texas  School  for  the  Blind  and  Visually  Impaired,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne,  on  behalf  of  Upshur  County  School  District,  filed  September  4,  2001;  Letter  from  Lan  Neugent,  Virginia  Department  of  Education,  filed  September  5,  2001;  Letter  from  Malcom  Cain,  Wilcox  County  Board  of 
 Education,  filed  September  18,  2001  (Requests  for  Review). 
 2  See  Requests  for  Review.  Section  54.  719(  c)  of  the  Commissions  rules  provides  that  any  person  aggrieved  by  an 
 action  taken  by  a  division  of  the  Administrator  may  seek  review  from  the  Commission.  47  C.  F.  R.    54.  719(  c). 
 3  47  C.  F.  R.    54.  724(  a). 


 4  Requests  for  Review  of  Decisions  of  the  Universal  Service  Administrator  by  Arlington  County  School  District, 
 Arlington,  Virginia,  et.  al.,  Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service,  Changes  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  National  Exchange  Carrier  Association,  Inc.,  CC  Docket  Nos.  96-  45  and  97-  21,  Order,  DA  01-  2952  (Com.  Car. 


 Bur.  rel.  December  20,  2001). 
 5  47  C.  F.  R.    524(  a). 
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 filed  by  Oklahoma  City  Public  Schools,  Oklahoma  City,  Oklahoma;  to  March  28,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Prince  Georges  County  Public  Schools,  Arlington,  Virginia;  to 
 March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Putnam  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Randolph  County  School  District, 
 Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  7,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Randolph  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Rochester 
 Public  Schools,  Rochester,  Minnesota;  to  March  14,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Summers  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for 
 Review  filed  by  Texas  School  for  the  Blind  and  Visually  Impaired,  Austin,  Texas;  to  March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Upshur  County  School  District,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  to 
 March  4,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Virginia  Department  of  Education,  Richmond,  Virginia;  to  March  18,  2002,  for  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Wilcox  County 
 Board  of  Education,  Camden,  Alabama. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Mark  G.  Seifert  Deputy  Chief,  Accounting  Policy  Division 
 Common  Carrier  Bureau 
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