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DA 21-1076
Released:  August 30, 2021

FORM 477 FILING DEADLINE EXTENDED

WC Docket No. 11-10
With this Public Notice, the Office of Economics and Analytics (Office) hereby extends the September 1, 2021 filing deadline for the submission of Form 477 data as of June 30, 2021.  The Office will announce the new filing deadline by Public Notice shortly.
On Sunday, August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf Coast of the United States as a Category 4 hurricane and continues to cause significant damage in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, See Bulletin, U.S. National Weather Service, Forecast to Strengthen Rapidly Before Landfall…Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Potentially Catastrophic Wind Damage and Flooding Rainfall Expected to Impact the Northern Gulf Cost Beginning Sunday Morning, (Aug. 28, 2021), https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/282353.shtml. See also FEMA, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Emergency Declaration for Mississippi (Aug. 28, 2021), https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210829/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-emergency-declaration-mississippi (last visited Aug. 29, 2021) and President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Louisiana (Aug. 30, 2021),  https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210830/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-major-disaster-declaration-louisiana (last visited Aug. 30, 2021).
 including significant property damage, personal injury, and substantial service disruptions and outages in communications and electric services.  Its effects are expected to continue for at least the next several days. Id.
  To allow affected filers time to focus on recovering from this powerful storm, we are extending the deadline for all filers for the submission of Form 477 data as of June 30, 2021 beyond the original September 1, 2021 deadline. 
Information on how to file Form 477 is available on the FCC’s Form 477 Resources for Filers webpage at www.fcc.gov/form477.  For Form 477 filing assistance, please call 1-877-480-3201 or 1-717-338-2824 (tty), or submit an e-support request online at https://esupport.fcc.gov/request.htm.
For additional information, please contact the Industry Analysis Division of the Office of Economics and Analytics at (202) 418-0940 or (202) 418-0484 (tty).

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