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‘‘interLATA services originating in any

of its in-region States’’ prior to FCC

approval, also uses a form of the term

‘‘originate.’’

4. What is the legal significance, if

any, of the fact that section 272(e)(4)

applies to intraLATA services and

facilities as well as interLATA services

and facilities? Before the court, for

example, AT&T argued that the use of

the term ‘‘intraLATA’’ demonstrates that

section 272(e)(4) is not a grant of

authority because, among other things,

‘‘a BOC needs no grant of federal

statutory authority to provide

intraLATA services.’’

5. Are the principal concerns that

underlie the separate affiliate

requirement of section 272—

discrimination and cost misallocation

by a BOC—less serious in the context of

the wholesale provisioning of in-region

interLATA services to affiliates than in

the context of the direct retail

provisioning of such services, at least

where, as here, any such provisioning is

required to take place in a nondiscriminatory manner? If they are less

serious, are they nonetheless serious

enough to justify, as a policy matter,

prohibiting such wholesale

provisioning? Of what relevance, if any,

is the fact that there was no exception

to the interLATA services restriction

contained in the Modified Final

Judgment for wholesale interLATA

services provided on a nondiscriminatory basis, or that there

presently is no wholesale interLATA

services exception to section 271’s

prohibition on the provision of in-region

interLATA services prior to FCC

approval? At the same time, of what

relevance, if any, is the fact that once a

BOC has received section 271 approval

and its interLATA affiliate is permitted

to provide in-region interLATA services,

the 1996 Act also allows the BOC to

provide its interLATA affiliate various

wholesale services and facilities, such

as wholesale access services and

wholesale access to unbundled network

elements, so long as the BOC does so in

a non-discriminatory way and in arm’s

length transactions? What is the policy

justification for not permitting the BOC

to provide, in addition, wholesale

interLATA services to its affiliate?

6. Does the extent of concern for

discrimination and cost misallocation

depend, at least in part, on the

particular kind of in-region wholesale

interLATA service a BOC seeks to offer?

For example, does the extent of concern

differ depending on whether the

wholesale service being offered is a

bundled end-to-end interLATA service

or a interLATA service that merely

transmits traffic from a point of

presence in one LATA to a point of

presence in another LATA? How would

the non-discrimination requirement in

section 272(e)(4) apply to these different

kinds of wholesale interLATA services?

Are there some kinds of services that, in

practice, could not be provided in a

non-discriminatory manner? In their

comments, BOCs should clarify

precisely what kind of wholesale

interLATA service they would seek to

provide, if any, using the excess

capacity on their official services

networks.

7. Interested parties should file an

original and two copies of their

comments by April 17, 1997, and reply

comments by April 24, 1997, with the

Secretary, FCC, 1919 M Street, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20554. A copy should

also be sent to Janice Myles, Common

Carrier Bureau, FCC, Room 544, 1919 M

Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20554,

and to the Commission’s contractor for

public service records duplication, ITS,

Inc., 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 140,

Washington, D. C. 20037. Parties filing

comments and reply comments should

include the Commission docket number,

CC Docket No. 96–149, on their

pleadings. Comments and reply

comments will be available for public

inspection during regular business

hours in the FCC Reference Center,

Room 239, 1919 M Street, N.W.,

Washington, D. C. 20554.

8. We will continue to treat this

proceeding as non-restricted for

purposes of the Commission’s ex parte

rules. See generally 47 CFR 1.1200–

1.1216.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

[Report No. 2185]

Petitions for Reconsideration and

Clarification of Action in Rulemaking

Proceeding

April 2, 1997.

Petitions for reconsideration and

clarification have been filed in the

Commission’s rulemaking proceedings

listed in this Public Notice and

published pursuant to 47 CFR Section

1.429(e). A full text of these documents

are available for viewing and copying in

Room 239, 1919 M Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. or may be purchased

from the Commission’s copy contractor,

ITS, Inc. (202) 857–3800. Oppositions to

these petitions must be filed April 23,

1997. See Section 1.4(b)(1) of the

Commission’s rules (47 CFR 1.4(b)(1).

Replies to an opposition must be filed

within 10 days after the time for filing

oppositions has expired.

Subject: The Use of N11 Codes and

Other Abbreviated Dialing

Arrangements. (CC Docket No. 92–105).

Number of Petitions Filed: 5.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Ocean Freight Forwarder License

Applicants

Notice is hereby given that the

following applicants have filed with the

Federal Maritime Commission

applications for licenses as ocean freight

forwarders pursuant to section 19 of the

Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. app.

1718 and 46 CFR 510).

Persons knowing of any reason why

any of the following applicants should

not receive a license are requested to

contact the Office of Freight Forwarders,

Federal Maritime Commission,

Washington, DC. 20573.

CERES Freight Systems, Inc., 26 East Bryan

Street, Savannah, GA 31401, Officers:

Robert H. Demere, Jr., President, Eugene R.

Tompkins, Vice President

World Trade Forwarding Group Corp., 9600

N.W. 25th Street, Suite 2–B, Miami, FL

33172, Officers: Vivian ManrigueCollantes, President, Salvador C. Collantes,

Vice President

Cabell Export, 922 White Marlin Drive,

Charleston, SC 29412, Lesley Schoepf

Cabell, Sole Proprietor

Robert W. Cisco Custom House Broker, 416

Common Street, Suite 101, New Orleans,

LA 70130, Robert William Cisco, Sole

Proprietor

Ex-Works Miami Corp., 1360 N.W. 78

Avenue, Miami, FL 33126, Officer: Miriam

R. Perez, President

Sea Expo Freight Services, Inc., 32

Somerville Road, Hewitt, NJ 07421, Officer:

William T. Murphy

Blanca Company Inc., 913 South Jackson

Street, Suite B, Seattle, WA 98104,

Officers: Vannara Zou, President, Suke

Zou, Chairman

Dated: April 2, 1997.

Joseph C. Polking,

Secretary.

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