The FCC is asking the states to review...
The FCC is asking the states to review and update their Emergency Alert System plans to make sure they comply with the agency’s rules, said a public notice from the commission’s Public Safety Bureau Thursday (http://bit.ly/ZYhmhc). The notice to the…
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State Emergency Communication Committees (SECCs) is in response to one of the recommendations that came out of a report on the FCC and Federal Emergency Management Agency’s first-ever nationwide EAS test in 2011 (CD April 16 p5). The new notice said all state EAS plans must be up to date, filed with the FCC, and must include a “computer readable” data table showing monitoring assignments and “the specific primary and backup path” for emergency messages, “from the Primary Entry Point (PEP) to each station in the plan.” The agency also requires states that can initiate messages using the Common Alerting Protocol to include monitoring and distribution specifics for those messages in their EAS plans. In a separate order Thursday (http://bit.ly/163m81q), the bureau also allowed 15 stations that had previously filed requests for waivers of the commission’s CAP requirements to withdraw them. “These fifteen petitioners all state that they are now either in compliance with [the CAP requirement] or are no longer in operation,” said the order.