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                            Before the
                Federal Communications Commission
                      Washington, D.C. 20554

                                   )         
In the Matter of                   )    
                                   )
Request for Review of the                    )
Decision of the                         )
Universal Service Administrator by           )
                                   )
Mariposa County Unified School District           )    File No. SLD-32441  
Mariposa, California                    )
                                   )    
Federal-State Joint Board on       )    CC Docket No. 96-45 
Universal Service                       )    
                                   )
Changes to the Board of Directors of the          )    CC Docket No. 97-21 
National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc.  )

                              ORDER

Adopted:  October 28, 1999                     Released:  October 28, 1999

By the Common Carrier Bureau:

     1.   This Order dismisses the Letter of Appeal of Mariposa County Unified School
District dated June 8, 1999, but received by the Commission on June 14, 1999, which seeks
review of the Administrator's Decision on Appeal, dated May 10, 1999.  Under section 54.720 of
the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  54.720, any such appeal must be filed within 30 days of the
issuance of the decision for which review is sought.  Documents are considered to be filed with
the Commission only upon receipt.  47 C.F.R.  1.7.  Because the instant Letter of Appeal was
not filed within the specified 30-day period, it will be dismissed without further consideration.   

     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 Letter of Appeal filed June 14, 1999 by Mariposa County Unified School
District IS DISMISSED.


                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              Yog R. Varma
                              Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau