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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  01-  2188 
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 Before  the 
 Federal  Communications  Commission  Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of 
 Developing  a  Unified  Intercarrier 
 Compensation  Regime 


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 CC  Docket  No.  01-  92 


 ORDER 
 Adopted:  September  18,  2001  Released:  September  19,  2001 
 Reply  Comment  Date:  November  5,  2001 
 By  the  Chief,  Competitive  Pricing  Division: 
 1.  On  April  27,  2001,  the  Commission  released  a  Notice  of  Proposed  Rulemaking 
 establishing  the  pleading  cycle  for  comments  and  reply  comments  in  the  above-  captioned 
 docket.  1  The  deadline  for  comments  was  August  21,  2001,  and  the  deadline  for  reply  comments 
 was  October  5,  2001.  2 


 2.  On  September  14,  2001,  the  United  States  Telecom  Association  (USTA)  filed  a 
 Motion  for  Extension  of  Time  to  extend  the  date  for  reply  comments  by  45  days,  to  November 
 19,  2001.  3  According  to  USTA,  this  extension  is  necessary  to  afford  it  an  adequate  opportunity 
 to  analyze  and  respond  to  comments  on  the  “far-  reaching  implications”  raised  by  the  Intercarrier 
 Compensation  NPRM.  4 


 3.  It  is  the  policy  of  the  Commission  that  extensions  of  time  are  not  routinely 
 granted.  5  Such  extensions  may  be  warranted  when,  among  other  things,  comments  prove  to  be 
 voluminous,  the  parties  would  not  have  sufficient  time  to  analyze  and  respond  to  comments, 
 or  the  filings  raise  complex  substantive  matters.  In  the  instant  proceeding,  we  note  that 
 75  comments  were  received,  with  voluminous  pages  and  complex  economic  analyses.  Upon 
 review  of  the  filed  comments  in  this  docket,  we  find  that  providing  the  movant  and  others  an 


 1  In  the  Matter  of  Developing  a  Unified  Intercarrier  Compensation  Regime,  CC  Docket  No.  01-  92,  Notice  of 
 Proposed  Rulemaking,  16  FCC  Rcd.  9610  (2001). 
 2  See  In  the  Matter  of  Developing  a  Unified  Intercarrier  Compensation  Regime,  66  Fed.  Reg.  28410  (May  23,  2001). 


 3  United  States  Telecom  Association,  Motion  for  Extension  of  Time  in  CC  Docket  No.  01-  92  (filed  Sept.  14,  2001). 
 4  Id.  at  1. 
 5  See  47  C.  F.  R.  †  1.46(  a). 
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 additional  month  to  respond  provides  a  necessary  and  sufficient  amount  of  time  to  formulate 
 meaningful  responses. 


 4.  Accordingly,  IT  IS  ORDERED  that,  pursuant  to  authority  found  in  section  4(  i) 
 of  the  Communications  Act  of  1934,  as  amended,  47  U.  S.  C.  §  154(  i),  and  sections  0.91,  0.  291 
 and  1.46  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.91,  0.  291,  1.46,  USTA’s  Motion  for 
 Extension  of  Time  IS  GRANTED  IN  PART  to  establish  a  new  reply  comments  deadline  of 
 November  5,  2001. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Jane  E.  Jackson 
 Chief,  Compet  it  ive  Pricing  Division 
 Common  Carrier  Bureau 
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