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$//MO&O, GTA request for extension of time, AAD 95-84,85,86; DA 95-1890//$
$/Sect. 1.46(a)/$
"Record Only"                   Before the 
                     FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                           Washington, DC 20554


In the Matter of                        )         DA 95-1890
                                   )
GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY          )         AAD 95-84
  OF GUAM                          )         
                                   )
JAMA CORPORATION                   )         AAD 95-85
                                   )
COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN  )         
  MARIANA ISLANDS                  )         AAD 95-86
                                   )
Petitions for Rulemaking to Provide Rate          )
Integration for the Provision of Communications   )
Between the United States mainland, Alaska,  )
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and    )
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana     )
Islands                            )



                       MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

     Adopted:  August 30, 1995               Released:  August 30, 1995

By the Chief, Accounting and Audits Division:

                                     
                             I.  INTRODUCTION

          1.   The Governor's Office of the Territory of Guam ("Guam"), JAMA
Corporation ("JAMA"), and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("CNMI") filed
petitions requesting that the Federal Communications Commission institute a rulemaking
proceeding to integrate telecommunications rates among the United States Mainland, Hawaii,
Alaska, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and CNMI.   

          2.   Comments and reply comments on these petitions were requested in a
public notice that was released June 16, 1995.  Comments were to be filed on or before August
15, 1995, and reply comments are to be filed on or before August 31, 1995.

          3.   On August 25, 1995 the Guam Telephone Authority ("GTA") filed a
request for an extension of time until September 14, 1995 for the filing of reply comments in
the above captioned proceedings.  GTA states that an extension of time is warranted because the
length of time to provide for the preparation of comments, two months, has led to a number of
thoughtful pleadings; and it is not possible to provide equally thoughtful responses on the
complex issues that have been raised by those comments within the two week period that was
established.  
     
          4.   Requests for extensions of time are not routinely granted.  However, given
the issues that have been raised by the parties filing comments in this proceeding, the public
interest will be served by granting additional time for the filing of reply comments.

          
                           II.  ORDERING CLAUSES

          5.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that reply comments in the above-captioned
proceedings shall be filed on or before September 14, 1995.






                              Kenneth P. Moran
                              Chief, Accounting and Audits Division
                              Common Carrier Bureau