*Pages 1--2 from Microsoft Word - 16707* Federal Communications Commission DA 02- 834 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, DC 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Request for Review of the ) Decision of the ) Universal Service Administrator by ) ) Putnam County School District ) File No. SLD- 249375 Winfield, West Virginia ) ) Federal- State Joint Board on ) WC Docket No. 96- 45 Universal Service ) ) Changes to the Board of Directors of the ) WC Docket No. 97- 21 National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. ) ORDER Adopted: April 10, 2002 Released: April 11, 2002 By the Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau: 1. Before the Accounting Policy Division is a Request for Review filed by Nathaniel Hawthorne on behalf of Putnam County School District, Winfield, West Virginia (Putnam), seeking review of a decision issued by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (Administrator). 1 Putnam seeks review of SLD’s denial of Putnam’s request for discounted services in Funding Year 4. 2 SLD denied Putnam’s request because it stated that Putnam did not postmark its FCC Form 471, Block 6 certifications, and/ or Item 21 attachments by the deadline for the Funding Year 4 filing window. 3 However, since the Request for Review was filed, SLD has granted the relief that Putnam is seeking. 4 Putnam’s Request for Review is therefore dismissed as moot. 1 Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, on behalf of Putnam County School District, Winfield, West Virginia, to Federal Communications Commission, filed September 4, 2001 (Request for Review). 2 See Request for Review. 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 See Letter from Schools and Libraries Division, Universal Service Administrative Company, to Paul Karas, Putnam County School District School, dated August 6, 2001. 4 See Letter from Schools and Libraries Division, Universal Service Administrative Company, to Paul Karas, Putnam County School District, dated November 16, 2001 (Funding Commitment Decision Letter). 1 Federal Communications Commission DA 02- 834 2 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 by Putnam County School District, Putnam, West Virginia, on September 4, 2001 IS DISMISSED as moot. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Mark G. Seifert Deputy Chief, Telecommunications Access Policy Division Wireline Competition Bureau 2