FCC Seeks USAC Nominees

The Federal Communications Commission seeks nominations for the following board member positions on the Board of Directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).

These positions are currently vacant:

• Representative for cable operators (position formerly held by Lee Beatty Schroeder).
• Representative for interexchange carriers with more than $3 billion in annual operating revenues (position formerly held by Rex Knowles).

Additionally, the FCC seeks nominations for the following board member positions, which are set to expire on December 31, 2010:

• Representative for commercial mobile radio service providers (position currently held by Scott Bergmann).
• Representative for schools that are eligible to receive discounts (position currently held by Anne Bryant).
• Representative for libraries that are eligible to receive discounts (position currently held by Anne Campbell).
• Representative for state consumer advocates (position currently held by Wayne Jortner).
• Representative for non-rural incumbent LECs (position currently held by Joel Lubin).

All nominations must be filed with the Office of the Secretary by October 27, 2010. Nominations may be filed using the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), or by filing paper copies