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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 )
                                   )
Amherst Independent School District     )    File No. SLD- 168514
Amherst, Texas                     )
                                   )
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:  August 10, 2001               Released:  August 13, 2001

By the Accounting Policy Division, Common Carrier Bureau:

1.     Before the Division is a letter filed by Amherst Independent School District (Amherst),
Amherst, Texas, that we construe as a Petition for Reconsideration.  In the Petition, Amherst
asks the Division to reconsider its April 26, 2001 decision dismissing Amherst's Request for
Review as untimely.  Because the Petition for Reconsideration was itself untimely filed, we must
dismiss it without further consideration.
2.     Petitions for reconsideration of Commission actions must be filed within 30 days of the
public notice of the action.  For non-rulemaking documents released by the Commission or staff,
the date of public notice is the release date.  The release date of the Division's prior decision was
April 26, 2001.  Because Amherst's Petition does not bear a date-stamp, we cannot determine its
exact filing date.  Due to this administrative error, we look at the date of the Petition, which is
June 6, 2001.  Even using this date as the filing date, the Petition was still filed 41 days after
public notice and hence is untimely.
3.     ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to authority delegated under sections
0.91, 0.291, and 1.106(a)(1) of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.91, 0.291, and
1.106(a)(1), that the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Amherst Independent School District,
Amherst, Texas, dated June 6, 2001 IS DISMISSED.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                              Mark G. Seifert
                              Deputy Chief, Accounting Policy Division
                              Common Carrier Bureau