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A-10 The Orlando Sentinel, Friday, March 26, 1999 It IV, Orange, Seminole, Osceola may need 3rd code by 2002 ipt-V- THu N.904407 Area codes f.i i Ci in trouble SENTINEL FILE At least 5 area codes in Florida could run out of phone numbers by the end of this year. They are 305, 561, 904, 941 and 954. arc i So long. Disney's 1 1 -acre Discovery Island zoo will shut down April 8. 94i A 786 Camp Hakuna Matata? Maybe CODES from A-1 us is either wrong or miscalculated." In Volusia County, which is split between the 904 and 407 area codes, officials said the miscalculation could work to their advantage.

The county wants to unify all of Volusia with a single area code, so the faster the 904 numbers run out the better. The problems shouldn't affect a recent decision not to add a third area code in Deltona and DeBary. Garcia said it's a safe bet that other area codes will be affected, although the PSC is still trying to determine which ones. Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties, which are scheduled to receive the 321 area code in early 2000, could wind up with a third area code by 2002, Garcia said. That would be two years earlier than originally expected.

Those counties will also begin 10-digit dialing on a voluntary basis on Thursday. It will become mandatory Dec. 1. Yog Varma, deputy bureau chief of the FCC's Common Carriers Bureau, which oversees the North American Numbering Plan, said the agency is not responsible for alerting states that phone numbers are running out. That is the responsibility of Lockheed Martin which runs the North American Numbering Plan's day-to-day operations, he said.

Varma said Gar-cia's comments "are not called for and inaccurate." Ron Conners, director of the North American Numbering Plan, said Lockheed Martin only recently took over administration of the plan and notified Florida officials as soon as it was aware of the problem. However, Conners said, the explosion of new Source: Public Service Commission land. Charges were dropped after Disney made improvements at the attraction, and company officials never admitted any wrongdoing. The island in Disney's Bay Lake, near the River Country water park, was named Raz Island from 1900 to 1937, after a family that lived there. The island also was the home of Florida's first dio disc jockey, Radio Nick, in the late 1930s, according to Since The World Began, a history of Walt Disney World.

Disney bought the island, which was a hunting retreat at the time, in 1965. When it opened as Treasure Island, it was Disney World's second attraction, following the 1971 opening of the Magic Kingdom. The company has since opened many more attractions. But Discovery Island is the first attraction charging a separate admission that will close its gates. Tickets to the park are $12.67, including tax, for adults and $6.89 for children.

cluding: An attraction featuring day-, long treasure hunts, in which families would use maps to search for clues on a pirate-themed island. A wilderness camp called Camp Hakuna Matata, based on the "no worries" song from Disney's The Lion King movie. Four luxury honeymoon cottages. Discovery Island has never been a high-profile Disney attraction, yet it made headlines on at least two occasions. In the 1980s, it was home to the few remaining dusky seaside sparrows.

The last of the species died in 1987. Two years later, four sparrows that had been crossbred with the dusky were lost during a storm that swept through Disney World. Also, in 1989, Disney was charged by state and federal officials with 16 counts of animal cruelty stemming from the deaths and alleged mistreatment of vultures and other birds on the is DISNEY from A-1 ing more than 130 species of ani- mals. Most are birds, but the park also has Galapagos tortoises and ring-tailed lemurs. Some of the animals will be moved to Animal Kingdom, while -others will be transferred to zoos around the country.

Disney's decision to close the Jpark after so many years came as no surprise to longtime tourism ''observer Abraham Pizam, a processor at the University of Central Florida. "It was sentimental to some people at Disney, but it was never major attraction," Pizam said. "That land is very valuable. Why waste it on something that doesn't generate much profit?" Ledder said no plans have been made for the island. "They are considering a num- ber of things, but nothing has been finalized," Ledder said.

Insiders have said a number of ideas are being considered, in This is absurd. Now we find that much of the information they are giving us is either wrong or miscalculated. Joe Garcia, chairman Florida Public Service Commission THE ORLANDO SENTINEL Tuesday on possible solutions to the number crunch. One possibility is to slow down the rate at which new phone numbers are distributed. Now, numbers are given to phone companies in blocks of 10,000.

That system has been criticized because start-up phone companies with few customers often don't need that many numbers. As a result, tens of thousands of phone numbers go unused. 1 Garcia said the PSC may require phone companies to give back their unused numbers to help replenish the supply. The PSC also may require the North American Numbering Plan to ask for the PSC's approval before doling out more phone numbers in Florida. phone lines for fax machines, cellular phones and Internet access makes it difficult to make projections on future area-code needs.

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