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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           )
                                   )
Foxcroft Academy                        )    File No. SLD-91295
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine                   )    
                                   )
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 14, 1999             Released:  December 14, 1999

By the Common Carrier Bureau:

     1.   This Order dismisses the Letter of Appeal of Foxcroft Academy, received by the
Commission on September 20, 1999, which seeks review of the Administrator's Decision on Appeal,
dated August 18, 1999.  Under 47 C.F.R.  54.720, any such appeal must be filed within thirty (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.  Because the instant Letter of Appeal was
not filed within the specified thirty (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 September 20, 1999 by Foxcroft Academy IS DISMISSED.



                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              Yog R.Varma
                              Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau