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for customers of discontinued services.
There has never been a 180-day customer notice period for discontinuance applications. As Verizon notes, Petitioners arguments regarding customer notification seem to conflate copper retirement with service discontinuance. The Second Report and Order provided for a streamlined 10-day comment period for applications to grandfather legacy voice services, which had previously been subject to the default of 15 days for non-dominant providers and 30 days for dominant providers. The Commission had previously adopted streamlined comment and automatic grant periods for applications to grandfather or to discontinue previously grandfathered low-speed legacy voice and data services. In the Second Report and Order, the Commission extended this streamlined treatment to all legacy voice services. The Commission explained in the Second Report and Order, as existing customers will be entitled to maintain their legacy voice services, they will not be harmed by grandfathering applications. It did not, however, shorten the comment period applicable to non-grandfathering technology transition discontinuance applications. Such applications are still subject to the default comment period.
And, while the First Report and Order revised the Commissions copper retirement rules to eliminate the requirement of direct notice to retail customers and reduced the copper retirement waiting period from 180 to 90 days, these changes did not affect the requirement or timing within which consumers receive notice of service discontinuance applications under section 214.
17. Finally, the Wireline Competition Bureau dismisses the Petitions argument that the Commission must reconsider its belief that market-based incentives are sufficient to ensure that carriers provide adequate replacement services to consumers in the event of a service discontinuance. The Commission has previously considered and rejected Petitioners claims in this regard. Nevertheless, judgments concerning the nature and impact of market incentives as they relate to public policy are well within the Commissions discretion. The rules adopted in the Second Report and Order were based on an extensive record, and in the absence of any new data or facts, the Wireline Competition Bureau rejects Petitioners request to reconsider those rules based solely on the fact that it disagrees with the Commissions
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assessment of competition in the market for telecommunications services.
B. The Motion To Hold in Abeyance Is Moot 18. The Wireline Competition Bureau dismisses as moot Public Knowledges accompanying Motion to hold the Second Report and Order in abeyance until pending litigation is resolved.
The Motion refers to a challenge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of the Commissions 2017
Wireline Infrastructure First Report and Order, which was then pending but has since been dismissed for lack of standing. We note that some commenters argue that Public Knowledges Motion was an improper motion for a stay, or is procedurally defective in other ways. We need not reach determination of these issues, however, as we instead merely dismiss this accompaniment to the Public Knowledge Petition as moot.
19. This action is taken pursuant to the authority delegated by 0.91 and 0.291 of the Commissions rules, 47 CFR
0.91 and 0.291.
IV. Procedural Matters
V. Ordering Clauses 22. Accordingly, it is ordered that, pursuant to sections 14 and 214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151154 and 214, this Order on Reconsideration is adopted.
23. It is further ordered that the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Public Knowledge is denied.
24. It is further ordered that this Order on Reconsideration shall be effective 30
days after publication in the Federal Register.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 622
Docket No. 120404257332502
RTID 0648XA849

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; 2021
Commercial Longline Closure for South Atlantic Golden Tilefish National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure.
AGENCY:

NMFS implements an accountability measure for the commercial longline component for golden tilefish in the exclusive economic zone EEZ of the South Atlantic. Commercial longline landings for golden tilefish are projected to reach the longline components commercial quota by February 10, 2021. Therefore, NMFS closes the commercial longline component of golden tilefish in the South Atlantic EEZ on February 10, 2021, at 12:01 a.m. local time. This closure is necessary to protect the golden tilefish resource.
DATES: This temporary rule is effective from 12:01 a.m. local time on February 10, 2021, until 12:01 a.m. local time on January 1, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Vara, NMFS Southeast Regional Office, telephone: 7278245305, email:
mary.vara@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The snapper-grouper fishery of the South Atlantic includes golden tilefish and is managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the SnapperGrouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region FMP. The FMP was prepared by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Council and is implemented by NMFS under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Magnuson-Stevens Act by regulations at 50 CFR part 622.
SUMMARY:

20. This document does not contain new or modified information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA, Public Law 10413. In addition, therefore, it does not contain any new or modified information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25
employees, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506c4.
21. Contact Person. For further information about this proceeding, please contact Michele Levy Berlove, Competition Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at 202 4181477.

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Federal Communications Commission Daniel Kahn, Associate Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau.

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