DA 00-958
                             Released: April 28, 2000
                                                     
                           
COMMON CARRIER BUREAU Grants motions for extension of time
to file comments in the numbering resource optimization proceeding
                           
                 CC Docket No. 99-200
                           
     
     On March 31, 2000, the Commission released the Numbering Resource
Optimization Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket
99-200, FCC 00-104.  In the Report and Order, the Commission adopted certain
administrative and technical measures that will allow it to monitor more closely and
improve the way numbering resources are used within the North American Numbering
Plan (NANP).  The Commission also sought comment on several matters relating to its
findings in the Report and Order in an accompanying Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (Further Notice). The Further Notice provided for comments to be due May
1, 2000, and reply comments to be due May 16, 2000.

     On April 21, 2000, the Association for Local Telecommunications Services,
Competitive Telecommunications Association, Personal Communications Industry
Association, Voicestream Wireless Corporation and Winstar Communications
(collectively the Joint Movants) filed a Motion for Extension of Time (Motion) to file
comments and reply comments in response to the Further Notice.  The Joint Movants
request that the Commission extend the date for comments from May 1, 2000 to May 19,
2000, and the date for reply comments from May 16, 2000 to June 9, 2000.  On April 26,
2000, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners filed a request
supporting the April 21, 2000 Motion of the Joint Movants, and seeking the same
extensions of the comment and reply comment periods.  The Joint Movants and NARUC
contend that the rulemaking addresses a complex subject matter and that a modest
extension of the comment and reply comment deadlines would enable interested parties to
provide more substantive and complete comments on the issues raised in the Further
Notice.  Because of the complexity of the issues presented, and in order to facilitate the
development of a complete record in this proceeding, an extension of the comment
deadline from May 1, 2000 to May 19, 2000, and the reply comment deadline from May
16, 2000 to June 9, 2000, is granted to all interested parties.
                           
     For further information contact Aaron Goldberger of the Common Carrier Bureau,
Network Services Division, at (202) 418-2320 or agoldber@fcc.gov.  The TTY number is (202)
418-0484.

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