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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  01-  2529 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  DC  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of  ) 
 ) 
 Request  for  Review  of  the  ) 
 Decision  of  the  ) 
 Universal  Service  Administrator  by  ) 
 ) 
 Newburgh  Enlarged  City  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  151012 
 Newburgh,  New  York  ) 
 ) 
 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:  October  30,  2001  Released:  October  31,  2001 
 By  the  Accounting  Policy  Division,  Common  Carrier  Bureau: 
 1.  Before  the  Division  is  a  Petition  for  Reconsideration  (Petition)  filed  by  Newburgh 
 Enlarged  City  School  District  (Newburgh),  Newburgh,  New  York.  1  In  the  Petition,  Newburgh 
 asks  the  Division  to  reconsider  its  January  23,  2001  decision  dismissing  Newburgh’s  Request  for 
 Review  as  untimely.  2  Because  the  Petition  for  Reconsideration  was  itself  untimely  filed,  we 
 must  dismiss  it  without  further  consideration. 


 2.  Petitions  for  reconsideration  of  Commission  actions  must  be  filed  within  30  days 
 of  the  public  notice  of  the  action.  3  For  non-  rulemaking  documents  released  by  the  Commission 
 or  staff,  the  date  of  public  notice  is  the  release  date.  4  The  release  date  of  the  decision  Newburgh 
 seeks  to  have  reviewed  was  January  23,  2001.  5  Newburgh’s  Petition  bears  a  date-  stamp  of 
 March  26,  2001,  the  date  of  its  receipt  by  the  Commission.  The  Petition  was  filed  58  days  after 
 public  notice  and  hence  is  untimely. 


 1  Letter  from  Roger  George,  Newburgh  Enlarged  City  School  District,  to  Federal  Communications  Commission, 
 filed  March  26,  2001  (Petition  for  Reconsideration). 
 2  Id. 


 3  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.  106(  f). 
 4  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.  4(  b)(  2). 
 5  Request  for  Review  by  Newburgh  Enlarged  City  School  District,  Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service, 
 Changes  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  National  Exchange  Carrier  Association,  Inc.,  File  No.  SLD-  151012,  CC 
 Dockets  No.  96-  45  and  97-  21,  Order,  DA  01-  146  (Com.  Car.  Bur.  rel.  January  23,  2001). 
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 3.  ACCORDINGLY,  IT  IS  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  authority  delegated  under 
 sections  0.91,  0.291,  and  1.106(  a)(  1)  of  the  Commission's  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.91,  0.  291,  and 
 1.106(  a)(  1),  that  the  Petition  for  Reconsideration  filed  by  Newburgh  Enlarged  City  School 
 District,  Newburgh,  New  York,  on  March  26,  2001  IS  DISMISSED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


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