PUBLIC NOTICE
  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
  445 12th Street, S.W.
  WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554                                                
  
  News media information 202/418-0500; Fax-On-Demand 202/418-2830; Internet: http://www.fcc.gov; TTY: 202/418-2555
  
  
                                               September 29, 1999
                              
                              
    PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED FOR FOLLOW-UP  PUBLIC FORUM 
             ON A NEW FCC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
                              
  
       A follow-up public forum to discuss Chairman Kennard's recently released draft
  strategic plan, "A New FCC for the 21st Century," will be held Thursday, September 30,
  1999, from 10 am to 1 pm.  The draft plan is available on the FCC website at:
  www.fcc.gov.
  
       The forum will be held in the Commission Meeting Room at 445 12th Street, SW,
  Washington, DC.  It will be open to the public and seating will be available on a first
  come, first served basis.  Chairman Kennard will welcome the forum participants and
  Kathryn Brown, the FCC's Chief of Staff, will moderate the discussion.
  
  The agenda for this forum will include a half-hour session on each of the four goals
  identified in the draft strategic plan.  Those goals are:  (1) create a model agency for the
  digital age; (2) promote competition in all communications markets; (3) promote
  opportunities for all Americans to benefit from the communications revolution; and (4)
  manage the electromagnetic spectrum (the Nation's airwaves) in the public interest.  The
  participants will comment on the initiatives identified in the plan under each of these goals
  as well as on any other aspects of the draft strategic plan, including recommended
  legislative proposals.
  
       The forum participants are:
  
       Rich Barth   Motorola Corporation
  
       Debra Berlyn   Competition Policy Institute
  
       Jim Blitz   Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  
       Alan Ciamporcero   GTE Services Corporation
       
       Peter Cramton   University of Maryland
  
       Jannette Dates   Black College Communication Association
  
       Michele Farquhar   Hogan and Hartson, Counsel to Western Wireless Corp.           
       
       Judy Harkins   Gallaudet University
  
       Joanne Kumekawa   The Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
  
       Pat Mahoney   Satellite Industry Association
  
       Robert McDowell   Competitive Telecommunications Association
  
       Roy Neel   United States Telephone Association
  
       Kofi Ofori   Black College Communication Association
  
       Preston Padden   The Walt Disney Company
  
       Steve Pociask   Joel Popkin and Company Economic Consulting
  
       Brad Ramsay   National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
  
       Jonathan Sallet   MCI WorldCom, Inc.
  
       Larry Sarjeant - United States Telephone Association
  
       Al Sonnenstrahl   Consumer Action Network of Deaf and Hard of Hearing      
       Consumers
       
       Larry Spiwak   Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy
       Studies
       
       Pam Stewart   Maryland Public Utility Commission
       
       Claude Stout - Telecommunication for the Deaf, Inc.
       
       Karen Peltz Strauss   National Association of the Deaf
       
       Jenell Trigg   The Telecom Opportunity Institute
       
       David Turetsky   Teligent
       
       Jennifer Warren   Lockheed Martin Corporation
       
  The forum will be closed captioned and will be carried live on the Internet through
  RealAudio from the FCC website at:  http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/.  The forum will also
  be closed captioned on the Internet at:  http://www.lexicast.com/. 
  
  A transcript of the forum will be available 10 business days after the event on the FCC's
  Internet site. The URL address for the FCC's Internet Home Page is http://www.fcc.gov. 
  Transcripts may also be obtained from the FCC's duplicating contractor, International
  Transcription Service, 1231 20th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, by calling ITS at
  (202) 857-3800, TTY (202) 293-8810, or faxing ITS at (202) 857-3805.  
  
  Audio and video tapes of the forum may be purchased from Infocus, 341 Victory
  Drive,  Herndon, VA 20170, by calling Infocus at (703) 834-0100 or by faxing Infocus at
  (703) 834-0111.  Copies of the transcript in other alternative formats (computer diskette,
  large print, and Braille) are available to persons with disabilities by contacting Martha
  Contee at (202) 418-0260 voice, (202) 418-2555 TTY, or at  mcontee@fcc.gov. 
  
  For additional information, contact Steve Klitzman at (202) 418-1913, TTY (202)
  418-2555 or Lisa Gaisford at (202) 418-7280, TTY (202) 418-1169.
  
  News media contact: Maureen Peratino at (202) 418-0500, TTY (202) 418-2555.
  
  
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