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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  04-  3563 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  DC  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of  )  ) 
 Request  for  Review  of  the  Decision  of  the  )  Universal  Service  Administrator  by  ) 
 )  Alvarado  Independent  School  )  File  No.  SLD-  371204 
 Alvarado,  Texas  )  ) 
 Schools  and  Libraries  Universal  Service  Support  )  CC  Docket  No.  02-  6  Mechanism  ) 


 ORDER 
 Adopted:  November  10,  2004  Released:  November  12,  2004 
 By  the  Deputy  Chief,  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division,  Wireline  Competition  Bureau: 
 1.  Alvarado  Independent  School  (Alvarado),  Alvarado,  Texas,  seeks  review  of  a  June  2,  2004  decision  by  the  Schools  and  Libraries  Division  (SLD)  of  the  Universal  Service  Administrative 
 Company  (Administrator).  1  For  a  review  of  a  decision  by  SLD,  appeals  to  the  Commission  must  be  filed  within  60  days  of  the  issuance  of  the  SLD  decision  date.  2  Here,  Alvarado  filed  its  appeal  after  the  60-  day 
 period,  in  contravention  of  our  rules.  We  therefore  dismiss  its  Request  for  Review. 
 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 


 Requests  for  Review  filed  on  September  3,  2004  by  Alvarado  Independent  School,  Alvarado,  Texas  IS  DENIED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Vickie  S.  Robinson  Deputy  Chief,  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division 
 Wireline  Competition  Bureau 
 1  Letter  from  Kyle  Berger,  Alvarado  Independent  School,  to  Federal  Communications  Commission,  filed  September 
 3,  2004  (Request  for  Review).  See  also  Form  486  Notification  Letter  from  Schools  and  Libraries  Division,  Universal  Service  Administrative  Company,  to  Stephanie  Farmer,  Alvarado  Independent  School,  dated  June  2, 


 2004.  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). 


 2  Commission  rules  previously  required  that  appeals  must  be  filed  with  the  Commission  or  SLD  within  30  days  of 
 the  issuance  of  the  decision  that  the  party  seeks  to  have  reviewed.  This  deadline  was  modified  in  2001  by  an  interim  order,  extending  the  deadline  to  60  days.  See  Implementation  of  Interim  Filing  Procedures  for  Filings  of  Requests 


 for  Review,  Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service,  CC  Docket  No.  96-  45,  Order,  17  FCC  Rcd  339  (Com.  Car.  Bur.  2001),  as  corrected  by  Implementation  of  Interim  Filing  Procedures  for  Filings  of  Requests  for  Review, 
 Federal-  State  Joint  Board  on  Universal  Service,  CC  Docket  No.  96-  45,  Errata  (Com.  Car.  Bur.  rel.  Dec.  28,  2001  and  Jan.  4,  2002).  In  2003,  the  Commission  permanently  extended  the  time  limit  for  filing  an  initial  appeal  with 
 SLD  and  the  Commission  to  60  days.  See  Schools  and  Libraries  Universal  Service  Support  Mechanism,  CC  Docket  No.  02-  6,  Second  Report  and  Order  and  Further  Notice  of  Proposed  Rulemaking,  18  FCC  Rcd  9202,  9221,  paras. 
 55-  56  (2003).  47  C.  F.  R.  §  54.  720(  b). 
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