PUBLIC NOTICE                                                  DA 96-564   


       FEDERAL-STATE JOINT BOARD ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE TO CONVENE 
           AN OPEN MEETING AT 8:30AM ON FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1996
                          (CC DOCKET NO. 96-45)
                                    
Released:  April 10, 1996

        The Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service will hold an Open Meeting on Friday,
April 12, 1996 at 8:30 a.m., in Room 856 at 1919 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.  At the
meeting, the Federal-State Joint Board will hear from panels of experts addressing universal
service issues set forth in Section 254 of the Telecommunications Act.  Specifically, the panelists
will address issues relating to competition and universal service, and the telecommunications
needs of low income consumers; schools, libraries, and health care providers; and consumers
living in rural, insular, and high cost areas.  In addition to the panels, Richard W. Riley,
Secretary of the Department of Education will make a presentation on issues of relating to
universal service for schools and libraries.  A tentative list of the scheduled panels and the
participants for the day-long program follows this Notice. 

Common Carrier Bureau Contact:  Mindy J. Ginsburg (202) 418-1500
Accounting and Audits Division:  Pamela Szymczak (202) 418-0389


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                          Joint Board Meeting -
                          Friday, April 12, 1996
                                 8:30am
                           Tentative Schedule
                                    
                                    
                                    
8:30                   Meeting Begins

8:50-9:20              Competition and Universal Service
                       1.  Rex Mitchell, Vide President, Pacific Bell (CA)
                       2.  Mark Rosenblum, Vice President, Law and Public      
                        Policy, AT&T
                       3.  Brad Stillman, Telecommunications Policy                 
                       Director, Consumer Federation of America

9:20-9:25              Break

9:25-10:25             Panel on Low Income Consumers
                       1.  Kathryn C. Brown, Associate Administrator,              
                       National Telecommunications and Information        
                       Administration
                       2.  Commissioner Bob Rowe, Montana Public                
                        Service Commission, Chair of the NARUC                   
                       Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs (MT)
                       3.  Nancy Brockway, National Consumer Law Center    
                         (MA)
                       4.  Milton Mueller, Professor, Rutgers University (NJ)
                       5.  David Freet, Vice President, Pennsylvania                 
                        Telephone Association (PA)

10:25-10:30       Break



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10:30-11:00       The Honorable Richard W. Riley, Secretary of                         
                 the United States Department of Education

11:00-12:00       Schools and Libraries
                       1.  Dr. Betty Turock, President, American Library           
                       Association
                       2.  James D. Parry, Director of Technology &                 
                         Innovations In Education, Black Hills Special              
                       Services  Cooperative (SD)
                       3.  Gordon Ambach, Council of Chief State School       
                         Officers
                       4.  John Yrchik, Executive Director, Connecticut            
                       Education Association (CT)
                       5.  Frank Gumper, Vice President, Federal                     
                       Regulatory Planning, NYNEX


12:00-12:05       Break

12:05-1:05             Rural, Insular, and High Cost Areas
                       1.  Adam Golodner, Deputy Administrator, Rural           
                       Utility Service, Department of Agriculture
                       2.  Karen Buller, National Indian                                   
                        Telecommunications Institute (NM)
                       3.  Ron Binz, Competitive Policy Institute (CO)
                       4.  Jeffry H. Smith, Vice President, Keystone Arthur       
                       Telephone Company (NE)
                       5.  Dr. Robert Crandall, Senior Fellow, Brookings            
                       Institution
                       6.  Charles C. Townsend, CEO, Atlantic Cellular (RI)

1:05-1:35              Lunch


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1:35-2:35              Health Care Providers
                       1.  Dr. Dena S. Puskin, Sc.D., Deputy Director, Office      
                        of  Rural Health Policy - Department of Health         
                       and Human Services, and Chair, Joint                        
                       Telemedicine Work Group
                       2.   Dr. Jay Sanders, President of the American             
                         Telemedicine Association (GA)
                       3.  Shelby Hoffpauir, President, Cameron                      
                        Telephone Company (CA)
                       3.  Joe Tracy, Director of Telemedicine, University         
                       of Missouri Health Science Center (MO)
                       4.  William C. Bailey, Director, External & Regulatory      
                       Administration, SWBT (MO)
                       5.  Mary Gardiner Jones, President, Consumer               
                        Interest Research Institute, and President, , ,            
                       Alliance for Public Technology

3:10                   Meeting Concludes