*Pages 1--6 from Microsoft Word - 13305.doc* Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, DC 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Requests for Review of the ) Decision of the ) Universal Service Administrator by ) ) Albany County School District ) File No. SLD- 251964 Laramie, Wyoming ) ) Amity Regional High School ) File No. SLD- 226762, 226664 Woodbridge, Connecticut ) ) Baxter County Library ) File No. SLD- 260055 Mountain Home, Arkansas ) ) Berkeley County School District ) File No. SLD- 220063 Cleveland, Ohio ) ) Bethel School District No. 52 ) File No. SLD- 267862 Eugene, Oregon ) ) Charleston County School District ) File No. SLD- 240734, 242904 Charleston, South Carolina ) 242940, 243031 ) Chester Community Charter School ) File No. SLD- 236453 Media, Pennsylvania ) ) Dermott Special School District ) File No. SLD- 252777 Dermott, Arkansas ) ) Desert Sands Unified School District ) File No. SLD- 249106 La Quinta, California ) ) East Baton Rouge Parish ) File No. SLD- 267852 Baton Rouge, Louisiana ) ) Education Service Center Region No. 12 ) File No. SLD- 233770 Waco, Texas ) ) Forsyth County Public Library ) File No. SLD- 263590,164263 Winston- Salem, North Carolina ) ) 1 Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 2 Golden Ridge School ) File No. SLD- 260271 Fairfield, Montana ) ) Green Bay Area Public Schools ) File No. SLD- 275616 Green Bay, Wisconsin ) ) Heartland Community Schools ) File No. SLD- 221520 Henderson, Nebraska ) ) Henderson County Public Library District ) File No. SLD- 228278 Henderson, Kentucky ) ) Island Park Library Friends, Inc. ) File No. SLD- 218407 Macks Inn, Idaho ) ) Jennings City Library ) File No. SLD- 250234 Jennings, Kansas ) ) Kanawha Christian School ) File No. SLD- 228261 Kanawha, Iowa ) ) Karnes City Independent School District ) File No. SLD- 256754 Karnes City, Texas ) ) Lauderdale County Board of Education ) File No. SLD- 220123 Florence, Alabama ) ) Lewis County School District ) File No. SLD- 220097 Cleveland, Ohio ) ) Loutit District Library ) File No. SLD- 279432 Grand Haven, Michigan ) ) Merrimack Valley Library Consortium ) File No. SLD- 264801 Andover, Massachusetts ) ) Mora Public Schools ) File No. SLD- 221340 Mora, Minnesota ) ) Pandhandle Public Library Cooperative System ) File No. SLD- 254360 Marianna, Florida ) ) Quincy School District No. 172 ) File No. SLD- 212425 Bloomindale, Illinois ) ) 2 Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 3 Ridgefield Public Schools ) File No. SLD- 259136 Ridgefield, Connecticut ) ) Rockdale Independent School District ) File No. SLD- 241706 Rockdale, Texas ) ) Sacramento Unified School District ) File No. SLD- 242477, 242426 Sacramento, California ) 241593 ) School Administrative District No. 53 ) File No. SLD- 247037 Pittsfield, Maine ) ) Seattle School District No. 1 ) File No. SLD- 265993 Seattle, Washington ) ) Solomon Schechter School of Queens ) File No. SLD- 258242 Flushing, New York ) ) SouthWest Ohio Computer Association ) File No. SLD- 230441 Hamilton, Ohio ) ) Southeastern Libraries Cooperating ) File No. SLD- 251453 Rochester, Minnesota ) ) St. John Central School ) File No. SLD- 239551 Marietta, Ohio ) ) St. John Vianney High School ) File No. SLD- 238491 Holmdel, New Jersey ) ) Tallulah Academy- Delta Christian School ) File No. SLD- 221446 Tallulah, Louisana ) ) Wathena Unified School District and Elwood ) File No. SLD- 248112, 246197 Unified School District ) Wathena, Kansas ) ) Wayne County Regional Educational Service ) File No. SLD- 266683 Agency ) Wayne, Michigan ) ) Webster County School District ) File No. SLD- 220685 Cleveland, Ohio ) ) Wetzel County School District ) File No. SLD- 220690 Cleveland, Ohio ) 3 Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 4 Ypsilanti District Library ) File No. SLD- 247242 Ypsilanti, Michigan ) ) 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: November 19, 2001 Released: November 20, 2001 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 Commission’s rules. 2 1 Letter from Rocky J. Tyler, Albany County School District, filed August 23, 2001; Letter from Joseph Campbell, Amity Regional High School, filed August 20, 2001; Letter from Gwen Khayat, Baxter County Library, filed August 20, 2001; Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Berkeley County School District, filed August 28, 2001; Letter from Tim Goss, Bethel School District No. 52, filed August 24, 2001; Letter from Jon Ostendorf, Charleston County School District, filed August 29, 2001; Letter from Pete Idstein, Chester Community Charter School, filed August 21, 2001. Letter from Penny Lay and Dennis Meins, Dermott Special School District , filed August 17, 2001 ; Letter from Dr. George Araya, Desert Sands Unified School District, filed August 22, 2001; Letter from John B. Richard, East Baton Rouge Parish, filed August 10, 2001; Letter from Robb Scott, Education Service Center Region No. 12, filed August 10, 2001; Letter from Herman Schmid, Forsyth County Public Library, filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Caroline J. Forseth, Golden Ridge School, filed August 20, 2001; Letter from Daniel A. Nerad, Green Bay Area Public Schools, filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Norman E. Yoder, Heartland Community Schools, filed August 21, 2001; Letter from Pamela Vincent, Henderson County Public Library District, filed August 31, 2001; Letter from Genevieve Prahasto, Island Park Library Friends, Inc., filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Sonya A. Gillespie, Jennings City Library, filed August 14, 2001; Letter from Vicki Hillenga, Kanawha Christian School, filed August 24, 2001; Letter from Chelleye Block, Karnes City Independent School District, filed August 29, 2001; Letter from Jerry Fulmer, Lauderdale County Board of Education, filed August 17, 2001; Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis County School District, filed August 28, 2001; Letter from Gail Skruch, Loutit District Library, filed August 29, 2001; Letter from Lawrence R. Rungren, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, filed August 6, 2001; Letter from Keith E. Lester, Mora Public Schools, filed August 7, 2001; Letter from Laura Massie, Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System, filed August 15, 2001; Letter from Jerry S. Steinberg, Quincy School District No. 172, filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Donna M. Case, Ridgefield Public Schools, filed August 24, 2001; Letter from Marcia J. Proctor, Rockdale Independent School District, filed August 22, 2001; Letter from Sally Savona, Sacramento Unified School District, filed August 3, 2001; Letter from Richard K. Woodbury, School Administrative District No. 53, filed August 15, 2001; Letter from Dugal Easton, Seattle School District No. 1, filed August 24, 2001; Letter from Susanne M. Felder and Bernice M. Frankel, Solomon Schechter School of Queens, filed August 27, 2001; Letter from Mark J. Palchick, South West Ohio Computer Association, filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Ann B. Hutton, Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, filed August 28, 2001; Letter from David A. O’Connor, St. John Central School, filed August 14, 2001; Letter from Susan E. Conrad, St. John Vianney High School, filed August 28, 2001; Letter from John E. Beach, Tallulah Academy- Delta Christian School, filed August 13, 2001; Letter from Leslie Pullman, Wathena Unified School District and Elwood Unified School District, filed 4 Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 5 2. The Commission’s rules provide that the Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) must issue a decision resolving a request for review of matters properly before it within ninety days unless the time period is extended. 3 The Bureau requires additional time to review the issues presented. Accordingly, we extend by an additional sixty (60) days the deadline by which the Bureau must take action regarding the instant Requests for Review of decisions by the SLD. 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 sixty days to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Albany County School District, Laramie, Wyoming; to January 15, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, Connecticut; to January 15, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, Arkansas; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Berkeley County School District, Cleveland, Ohio; to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Bethel School District No. 52, Eugene, Oregon; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Charleston County School District, Charleston, South Carolina; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Chester Community Charter School, Media, Pennsylvania; to January 14, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Dermott Special School District, Dermott, Arkansas; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Desert Sands Unified School District, La Quinta, California; to January 7, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; to January 7, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Education Service Center Region No. 12, Waco, Texas; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Forsyth County Public Library, Winston- Salem, North Carolina; to January 15, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Golden Ridge School, Fairfield, Montana; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Green Bay Area Public Schools, Green Bay; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Heartland Community Schools, Henderson, Nebraska; to January 28, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Henderson County Public Library District, Henderson, Kentucky; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Island Park Library Friends, Inc., Macks Inn, Idaho; to January 11, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Jennings City Library, Jennings, Kansas; to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Kanawha Christian School, Kanawha, Iowa; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Karnes City Independent School District, Karnes City, Texas; to January 14, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Lauderdale County Board of Education, Florence, Alabama; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Lewis County School District, Cleveland, Ohio; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Loutit District Library, Grand Haven, Michigan; to January 2, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, Andover, Massachusetts; to January 4, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Mora Public Schools, August 21, 2001; Letter from Bruce Barrett, Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, filed August 6, 2001; Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Webster County School District, filed August 21, 2001; Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wetzel County School District, filed August 28, 2001; Letter from Jill Morey, Ypsilanti District Library, filed August 29, 2001. 2 Section 54. 719( c) of the Commission’s 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). 5 Federal Communications Commission DA 01- 2703 6 Mora, Minnesota; to January 11, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System, Marianna, Florida; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Quincy School District No. 172, Bloomingdale, Illinois; to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Ridgefield Public Schools, Ridgefield, Connecticut; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Rockdale Independent School District, Rockdale, Texas; to December 31, 2001, for the Request for Review filed by Sacramento Unified School District, Sacramento, California; to January 11, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by School Administrative District No. 53, Pittsfield, Maine; to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Seattle School District No. 1, Seattle, Washington; to January 22, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Solomon Schechter School of Queens, Flushing, New York; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by South West Ohio Computer Association, Hamilton, Ohio; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, Rochester, Minnesota; to January 7, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by St. John Central School, Marietta, Ohio; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, New Jersey; to January 8, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Tallulah Academy- Delta Christian School, Tallulah, Louisiana; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Wathena Unified School District and Elwood Unified School, Wathena, Kansas; to January 2, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, Wayne, Michigan; to January 18, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Webster County School District, Cleveland, Ohio; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Wetzel County School District, Cleveland, Ohio; to January 25, 2002, for the Request for Review filed by Ypsilanti District Schools, Ypsilanti, Michigan. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Mark G. Seifert Deputy Chief, Accounting Policy Division Common Carrier Bureau 6