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                                                                    DA 11-967

                                                        Adopted: May 27, 2011

                                                       Released: May 31, 2011

       ELECTRONIC FILING OF SECTION 208 AND SECTION 224 FORMAL COMPLAINTS

   On February 4, 2011, the Commission released a Report and Order revising
   Part 1 and Part 0 of its rules. Among those revisions are new regulations
   requiring the docketing and electronic filing of all newly filed section
   208 formal complaints and newly filed section 224 pole attachment
   complaints. During the transition to a comprehensive docketing regime, the
   Part 1 Order permits Bureaus not to assign a formal docket number to
   certain proceedings if, in the considered judgment of staff, it would not
   be in the public interest to do so. Similarly, the Part 1 Order states
   that, during the transition to a comprehensive electronic filing regime,
   Bureaus may permit paper filings, if doing so would be in the public
   interest.

   In accordance with the Part 1 Order,  the Enforcement Bureau will be
   migrating newly filed section 208 formal complaints and newly filed
   section 224 pole attachment complaints to a formal docketing system and
   will be utilizing the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System
   ("ECFS") in connection with those complaints. However, prior to doing so,
   the Commission's formal complaint rules and pole attachment rules must be
   modified in certain respects to facilitate the docketing and electronic
   filing changes. Accordingly, until such time as the revised complaint
   filing rules are adopted and effective, the Enforcement Bureau deems it to
   be in the public interest to defer the implementation of the docketing and
   electronic filing requirements for newly filed section 208 formal
   complaints and section 224 pole attachment complaints.

   For further information, contact the Enforcement Bureau at 202-418-7330.

   Amendment of Certain of the Commission's Part 1 Rules of Practice and
   Procedure and Part 0 Rules of Commission Organization, FCC 11-16, Report
   and Order, 26 FCC Rcd 1594 (2011) ("Part 1 Order").

   Id. at P: P: 10, 15.

   Id. at P: 10.

   Id. at P: 15.

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 1.720-1.736.

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 1.1401-1.1418.

   Note that these new rules do not affect existing section 208 formal
   complaints or existing section 224 pole attachment complaints. They also
   do not concern carrier-to-carrier informal complaints. See Id. at Appendix
   A, (listing new rule S:1.49(f)(1)(i) that requires "[f]ormal complaint
   proceedings under Section 208 . . . " to be filed electronically and
   excluding informal complaints from that rule).

   PUBLIC NOTICE

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