Changes to the Board of Directors of the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. and Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service

The Order released August 15, 1997 directs NECA to assume the duties of USAC pertaining to the distribution, receipt, and processing of the Universal Service Worksheet until such time as USAC is prepared to begin its operations and assume these duties. The Order also authorizes NECA to perform certain ministerial functions on behalf of the Schools and Libraries and Rural Health Care Corporation to the extent that the performance of those functions is necessary to meet the January 1, 1998 starting date established by the Commission for implementing the universal service support mechanisms set forth in 47 U.S.C. Sec. 254. Additionally, the Order authorizes NECA, in its capacity as the Administrator of the TRS Fund, to make available to USAC, to NECA, to the extent that it is acting on behalf of USAC, and to the entity selected to be the permanent universal service Administrator, certain TRS Fund information consisting of the names, addresses, contact persons, type of business, and other non-financial, identifying information relating to TRS Fund contributors. Finally, the Order instructs entities that currently are unable, without substantial difficulty, to distinguish their intrastate, interstate, or international revenues or are unable to provide specific, line-by-line revenue totals for certain categories of revenues, to provide good faith estimates of such revenues in the Universal Service Worksheet that must be completed by September 1, 1997.