19990212Supplemental Cover Letter.doc

February 12, 1999

VIA FED EX

Federal Communications Commission
Office of the Secretary
Portals
445 Twelfth Street SW
Washington DC 20554

RE: Petition for Declaratory Ruling Concerning Section 251(h)(2)
CC Docket No. 98-221
Or in the alternative Ex Parte Communication

Dear Secretary:

Enclosed for filing is an original and 12 copies of the Idaho Public Utilities Commissions Supplemental Reply Comments in CC Docket No. 98-221. Please acknowledge receipt of this document by date stamping the duplicate copy of this letter and returning it in the enclosed self-addressed, stamped envelope. Because the deadline for filing Reply Comments was January 26, 1999, and these Supplemental Reply Comments were made necessary by events that occurred after the deadline, if there is a problem in filing these in CC Docket No. 98-221 as comments, please accept them as an ex parte communication filed pursuant to 47 C.F.R. 1.1206(b) and place them in the public record. All parties to the docket have been served as indicated in the Certificate of Service.
Sincerely,

Cheri C. Copsey
Deputy Attorney General

Enclosure

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