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                                          Before the
               Federal Communications Commission
                     Washington, DC  20554

In the Matter of                   )
                                   )
Request for Review of the          )
Decision of the                    )
Universal Service Administrator by )
                                   )
School District of the Borough of Wilkinsburg,    )    File No. SLD-88737
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania          )
                                   )
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:  December 16, 1999             Released: December 17, 1999

By the Common Carrier Bureau:

1.     This Order dismisses the Request for Review of the School District of the Borough of
Wilkinsburg (Wilkinsburg), Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania that was received by the Commission
June 8, 1999, which seeks review of the Universal Service Administrative Company's (USAC or
Administrator) Decision on Appeal, dated April 16, 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 as to which review is sought.  Documents are considered to be filed with
the Commission only upon receipt.  47 C.F.R.  1.7.  
2.     In its Request for Review, Wilkinsburg states that it did not receive any notification
of the Administrator's Decision on Appeal until it was delivered by mail on May 14, 1999 but
does not provide documentation supporting this assertion.  Wilkinsburg's statement that the
denial letter was not delivered until May 14, 1999, without more substantiation, is an insufficient
basis to exempt Wilkinsburg from the requirement that an appeal of a decision must be brought
within 30 days of the date of the decision.  Because the instant Request for Review was not filed
within the specified 30-day period and Wilkinsburg has not made a showing warranting the
acceptance of its late-filed appeal, the Request for Review will be dismissed without further
consideration.
3.     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 Request for Review filed on June 8, 1999 by the School District of the Borough of
Wilkinsburg, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania IS DISMISSED.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              Yog R. Varma
                              Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau