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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  01-  464 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  DC  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of  ) 
 ) 
 Request  for  Review  of  the  ) 
 Decision  of  the  ) 
 Universal  Service  Administrator  by  ) 
 ) 
 Salem  County  Vocational  Technical  Schools  )  File  No.  SLD-  186327 
 Woodstown,  New  Jersey  ) 
 ) 
 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,  2001  Released:  February  22,  2001 
 By  the  Accounting  Policy  Division,  Common  Carrier  Bureau: 
 1.  This  Order  dismisses  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  Salem  County  Vocational 
 Technical  Schools  (Salem  County),  Woodstown,  New  Jersey,  seeking  review  of  a  decision 
 issued  by  the  Universal  Service  Administrative  Company’s  Schools  and  Libraries  Division  on 
 October  31,  2000.  1  The  Commission  received  Salem  County’s  Request  for  Review  on 
 December  19,  2000.  2  Under  section  54.720  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  any  such  appeal  must  be 
 filed  within  30  days  of  the  issuance  of  the  decision  as  to  which  review  is  sought.  3  Documents 
 are  considered  to  be  filed  with  the  Commission  only  upon  receipt.  4  Because  the  instant  Request 


 1  See  Letter  from  the  Schools  and  Libraries  Division,  Universal  Service  Administrative  Co.,  to  Esther  R.  Pennell, 
 Salem  County  Vocational  Technical  Schools,  dated  October  31,  2000.  Salem  County  asserts  that  it  did  not  receive 
 the  October  31,  2000  decision  letter,  and  became  aware  of  the  decision  only  after  having  contacted  SLD.  A  review 
 of  the  record  indicates  that  SLD  did  issue  an  Administrator’s  Decision  on  Appeal  on  October  31,  2000.  Merely 
 stating  that  a  letter  was  not  received  at  the  address  provided  to  SLD  and  to  which  prior  correspondence  had  been 
 successfully  mailed  is  insufficient  grounds  for  reconsideration.  See  Request  for  Review  by  Whitehall  City  School 
 District,  Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service,  Changes  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  National  Carrier 
 Association,  Inc.,  CC  Docket  Nos.  96-  45  and  97-  21,  Order,  DA  00-  1892  (Com.  Car.  Bur.  rel.  August  18,  2000); 
 Juan  Galiano,  Memorandum  Opinion  and  Order,  5  FCC  Rcd  6442,  6443  (1990)  (“[  I]  f  the  Commission  were  to 
 entertain  and  accept  unsupported  arguments  that  letters  mailed  in  Commission  proceedings  were  not  delivered… 
 procedural  havoc  and  abuse  would  result.”). 


 2  Letter  from  Esther  R.  Pennell,  to  Federal  Communications  Commission,  filed  December  19,  2000  (Request  for 
 Review). 
 3  47  C.  F.  R.  §  54.  720. 


 4  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.7. 
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 for  Review  was  not  filed  within  the  specified  30-  day  period,  it  will  be  dismissed  without  further 
 consideration. 


 2.  ACCORDINGLY,  IT  IS  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  authority  delegated  under  sections 
 0.91,  0.291,  and  54.722(  a)  of  the  Commission's  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.91,  0.  291,  and  54.722(  a), 
 that  the  Request  for  Review  filed  December  19,  2000,  by  Salem  County  Vocational  Technical 
 Schools,  Woodstown,  New  Jersey,  IS  DISMISSED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Katherine  L.  Schroder 
 Chief,  Accounting  Policy  Division 
 Common  Carrier  Bureau 
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