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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  04-  3565 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  DC  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of  )  ) 
 Request  for  Review  of  the  )  Decision  of  the  ) 
 Universal  Service  Administrator  by  )  ) 
 Moscow  Unified  School  District  )  File  No.  SLD-  54997  Satanta,  Kansas  ) 
 )  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.  Moscow  Unified  School  District  (Moscow),  Satanta,  Kansas,  seeks  review  of  a  March  19,  1999  decision  by  the  Schools  and  Libraries  Division  (SLD)  of  the  Universal  Service  Administrative 
 Company  (Administrator).  1  For  a  review  of  decisions  by  SLD  issued  before  August  13,  2001,  appeals  to  the  Commission  must  be  filed  within  30  days  of  the  issuance  of  the  SLD  decision  date.  2  Here,  Moscow 
 filed  its  appeal  on  May  17,  1999,  after  the  30-  day  period,  in  contravention  of  our  rules.  We  therefore  dismiss  the  appeal. 


 1  Letter  from  Larry  Philippi,  Moscow  Unified  School  District,  to  Federal  Communications  Commission,  filed  May 
 17,  1999  (Request  for  Review).  Letter  from  Schools  and  Libraries  Division,  Universal  Service  Administrative  Company,  to  Larry  Philippi,  Moscow  Unified  School  District,  dated  March  19,  1999.  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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 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 
 Requestfor  Review  filed  by  Moscow  Unified  School  District,  Satanta,  Kansas  on  May  17,  1999  IS  DISMISSED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Vickie  S.  Robinson  Deputy  Chief,  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division 
 Wireline  Competition  Bureau 
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