Reply Comments of the American Library Association to the FCC Regarding Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Mechanism, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, and Changes to the Board of Directors of the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc.

Abstract

In addition to briefly commenting in support of tribal library E-rate eligibility, our September comments2 focused primarily on the questions and issues the Commission presented in its Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM). Besides ALA’s comments, there were twelve other parties who filed initial comments. In reviewing these parties’ comments, we are pleased to see there is considerable agreement on many issues. Below we provide Reply Comments on some of the initial comments filed. Our remarks also include comments filed by four parties in which we have some disagreements.