Federal Communications Commission DA 14-1209
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matters of
Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan for
Regulation of Interstate Services of Non-Price
Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and 
Interexchange Carriers
Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
Access Charge Reform for Incumbent Local 
Exchange Carriers Subject to Rate-of-Return 
Regulation
High-Cost Universal Service Support
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Petition for Rulemaking 
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CC Docket No. 00-256
CC Docket No. 96-45
CC Docket No. 98-77
WC Docket No. 05-337
WC PRM09WC
ORDER
Adopted:  August 20, 2014 Released: August 20, 2014
By the Acting Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau:
1. In this Order, we dismiss a number of pending petitions as moot.
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  In the USF/ICC 
Transformation Order and FNPRM, the Commission adopted many reforms addressing a wide range of 
high-cost universal service and access charge matters.
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  As a result of the USF/ICC Transformation Order
and FNPRM, the issues raised in certain petitions pending at the time the Order was adopted are moot.  In 
each case, the issues raised in the petition were addressed in the USF/ICC Transformation Order and 
FNPRM, or the relief requested is no longer relevant in light of the regulatory changes included in the 
Order.   For these reasons, we dismiss the petitions.
2. ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to the authority contained in sections 1-5
and 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151-155 and 254, and sections 
0.91, 0.291, and 1.429 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.91, 0.291, and 1.429, the petitions filed 
by petitioners listed in the Appendix ARE DISMISSED AS MOOT.
                                                     
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See Appendix.
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Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 10-90 et al., Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, 26 FCC 17663 (2011) (USF/ICC Transformation Order or Order), pets. for review denied sub nom. In 
re FCC 11-161, 753 F.3d 1015 (10th Cir. 2014).
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3. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to section 1.102(b)(1) of the Commission’s rules, 
47 C.F.R. § 1.102(b)(1), this Order SHALL BE EFFECTIVE upon release.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Carol E. Mattey
Acting Chief
Wireline Competition Bureau
Federal Communications Commission DA 14-1209
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APPENDIX
Petitions Dismissed
Petition Docket Nos. Date Filed
Western Alliance Petition for 
Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
Plains Rural Independent Companies 
Petition for Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
Alliance of Independent Rural Telephone 
Companies Petition for Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 28, 2001
National Telephone Cooperative 
Association Petition for Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
Competitive Universal Service Coalition
Petition for Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
CenturyTel, Inc. Petition for 
Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
Rural Consumer Choice Coalition
Petition for Reconsideration
CC Docket Nos. 00-256, 
96-45, 98-77, and 98-166
December 31, 2001
ACS of Fairbanks Petition for 
Declaratory Ruling and Other Relief 
Pursuant to Section 254(e) of the 
Communications Act
CC Docket No. 96-45 July 24, 2002
Western Wireless Petition to Reject 
Valor’s Self-Certification as a Rural 
Telephone Company in Oklahoma
CC Docket No. 96-45 September 17. 2003
National Cable & Telecommunications 
Association Petition for Rulemaking
WC PRM09WC November 5, 2009
Smith Bagley, Inc. Petition for Waiver WC Docket No. 05-337, 
CC Docket No. 96-45
December 14, 2009
Advantage Cellular Systems Request for 
Cost-Based Universal Service Support
WC Docket No. 05-337, 
CC Docket No. 96-45
March 27, 2009