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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  04-  2047 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of 
 Request  for  Review  of  Decision  of  the  Universal  Service 
 Administrative  Company  by 
 National  Public  Phone  Company 
 Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service 


 Changes  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  National  Exchange  Carriers  Association,  Inc. 


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 CC  Docket  No.  96-  45 
 CC  Docket  No.  97-  21 
 ORDER 
 Adopted:  July  7,  2004  Released:  July  8,  2004 
 By  the  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division,  Wireline  Competition  Bureau: 
 I.  INTRODUCTION 
 1.  This  Order  dismisses  the  Request  for  Review  filed  by  National  Public  Phone  Company  (“  NPP”).  1  NPP  seeks  review  of  a  decision  issued  by  the  Universal  Service 


 Administrative  Company  (Administrator)  on  February  7,  2002.  2  The  Commission  received  NPP’s  Request  for  Review  on  October  9,  2003.  3 


 2.  For  requests  seeking  review  of  decisions  issued  by  the  Administrator,  an  appeal  must  be  filed  with  the  Commission  within  60  days  of  the  issuance  of  the  decision  the  party  seeks  to 
 have  reviewed.  4  Documents  are  considered  to  be  filed  with  the  Commission  only  upon  receipt.  5 
 1  Letter  from  Craig  D.  Joyce,  Counsel  for  National  Public  Phone  Company  to  the  Federal  Communications 
 Commission,  dated  October  9,  2003  (Request  for  Review). 
 2  Letter  from  Universal  Service  Administrative  Company,  to  Teresa  Bercel,  National  Public  Phone  Company,  dated 
 February  7,  2002.  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  Request  for  Review. 
 4  Normally,  such  appeals  must  be  filed  with  the  Commission  within  30  days  of  the  issuance  of  the  decision  the  party 
 seeks  to  have  reviewed.  47  C.  F.  R.  §  54.720(  a).  However,  due  to  disruption  in  the  reliability  of  the  mail  service,  the  30-  day  appeal  period  has  been  extended  by  an  additional  30  days  for  requests  for  review  of  decisions  issued  on  or 


 after  August  13,  2001.  See  Implementation  of  Interim  Filing  Procedures  for  Filings  of  Requests  for  Review,  Order,  CC  Docket  No.  96-  45,  17  FCC  Rcd  339  (2001). 
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 NPP  should  have  filed  its  Request  for  Review  by  April  8,  2002  in  order  for  it  to  be  timely  filed.  NPP  filed  its  Request  for  Review  on  October  9,  2003. 
 3.  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  on  October  9,  2003,  by  National  Public  Phone  Company  IS  DISMISSED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 
 Anita  Cheng  Assistant  Chief,  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division 
 Wireline  Competition  Bureau 


 (Continued  from  previous  page)  5  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.7. 
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