PUBLIC NOTICE 
 
 
Federal Communications Commission 
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Washington, D.C. 20554 
  
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DA 14-1888 
Released: December 22, 2014 
 
 
Notice of Prohibited Presentation in the Matter of Connect America Fund, ETC Annual 
Reports and Certifications, and Petition of USTelecom for Forbearance  
(WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 14-58, and 14-192) 
 
Notice is hereby given that the Commission received a  prohibited written presentation, listed in 
the Appendix, in the above-referenced proceedings on December 9, 2014.   
 
With specified exceptions not applicable here, Section 1.1203 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 
C.F.R. § 1.1203, prohibits the making of any presentation, whether ex parte or not, to 
decision-making personnel concerning any matter listed on the Commission's Sunshine Agenda 
from the day after the Sunshine Agenda is released until the Commission releases the text of a 
decision or order relating to that matter or removes the item from the sunshine agenda.  The 
instant presentation addressed the merits of a matter that was included in the Commission's 
Sunshine Agenda by a Public Notice released on December 4, 2014, for consideration at the 
December 11, 2014 open Commission meeting.  The Commission released a Report and Order 
relating to this matter on December 18, 2014 (FCC 14-190). 
 
Under Section 1.1212(d) of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R § 1.1212(d), presentations that are 
received during the Sunshine Period and do not meet an exception provided by 47 C.F.R.  
§ 1.1204(a) or a Commission waiver shall be associated with, but not made a part of, the record 
in the relevant proceedings.  In accordance with the rule, the presentation here will be associated 
with, but not made part of the record in the above-referenced proceedings.     
   
The full text of this presentation is available for public inspection and copying during regular 
business hours at the FCC Reference Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, Room 
CY-A257, Washington, DC, 20554.  Copies of this presentation may also be purchased from the 
Commission's copy contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, 
Room CY-B402, Washington, DC, 20554, telephone 1-800-378-3160, web site 
www.bcpiweb.com.  This filing may also be viewed in the Commission’s Electronic Comment 
Filing System (ECFS) at http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/comment_search/.         
 
Action by Office of General Counsel, Administrative Law Division 
APPENDIX 
Name of Filer 
Date 
Received 
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 12/9/141 
  
 
1 The attorney for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association informed the Commission of  the violation 
the same day and explained that the untimeliness of the filing was inadvertent.   
 2