DA 00-1309
                             Released:  June 15, 2000
                                                     
                           
COMMON CARRIER BUREAU extends the 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 28, 2000, the Common
Carrier Bureau extended the comment deadline from May 1, 2000 to May 19, 2000, and
the reply comment deadline from May 16, 2000 to June 9, 2000.  Because of a delay in
publishing the Report and Order and Further Notice in the Federal Register, we hereby
extend the comment deadline to 14 days after publication in the Federal Register, and the
reply comment deadline to 21 days after publication in the Federal Register.  Interested
parties also may supplement existing comments and reply comments submitted in response
to the Further Notice until the extended dates.

     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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