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FCC 11.54
Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 11.54 EAS operation during a National Level emergency.
(a) The EAS Operating Handbook summarizes the procedures to be followed upon
receipt of a National level EAN or EAT Message.
(b) Immediately upon receipt of an EAN message, EAS Participants must:
(1) Monitor the two EAS sources assigned in the State or Local Area plan or
FCC Mapbook for any further instructions. SDARS licensees and DBS providers
may choose their two EAS sources, one of which must be a PEP station.
(2) Discontinue normal programming and follow the transmission procedures in
the appropriate section of the EAS Operating Handbook. Announcements may be
made in the same language as the primary language of the EAS Participant.
(i) Key EAS sources (National Primary (NP), Local Primary (LP), State
Primary (SP), State Relay (SR) and Participating National (PN) sources)
follow the transmission procedures and make the announcements in the
National Level Instructions of the EAS Operating Handbook.
(ii) Non-participating National (NN) sources follow the transmission
procedures and make the sign-off announcement in the EAS Operating
Handbook's National Level Instructions section for NN sources. After the
sign-off announcement, NN sources are required to remove their carriers or
services from the air and monitor for the Emergency Action Termination
message. NN sources using automatic interrupt under Sec. 11.51(m)(1), must
transmit the header codes, Attention Signal, sign-off announcement and EOM
code after receiving the appropriate EAS header codes for a national
emergency.
(3) After completing the above transmission procedures, key EAS and
Participating National sources must transmit a common emergency message
until receipt of the Emergency Action Termination Message. Message
priorities are specified in Sec. 11.44. If LP or SR sources of a Local Area
cannot provide an emergency message feed, any source in the Local Area may
elect to provide a message feed. This should be done in an organized manner
as designated in State and Local Area EAS Plans.
(4) The Standby Script shall be used until emergency messages are available.
The text of the Standby Script is in the EAS Operating Handbook's section
for Participating sources.
(5) Analog and digital TV broadcast stations shall display an appropriate
EAS slide and then transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as
specified in Sec. Sec. 11.51(a) through (e) and 73.1250(h) of this chapter.
(6) Analog cable systems, digital cable systems, and wireless cable systems
shall transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as specified in
Sec. 11.51(g) and (h).
(7) DBS providers shall transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally
as specified in Sec. 11.51(j).
(8) Announcements may be made in the same language as the primary language
of the EAS participant.
(9) Analog and digital broadcast stations may transmit their call letters
and analog cable systems, digital cable systems and wireless cable systems
may transmit the names of the communities they serve during an EAS
activation. State and Local Area identifications must be given as provided
in State and Local Area EAS plans.
(10) All analog and digital broadcast stations and analog cable systems,
digital cable systems and wireless cable systems operating and identified
with a particular EAS Local Area must transmit a common national emergency
message until receipt of the Emergency Action Termination.
(11) Analog and digital broadcast stations, except those holding an EAS
Non-participating National Authorization letter, are exempt from complying
with Sec. Sec. 73.62 and 73.1560 of this chapter (operating power maintenance) while
operating under this part.
(12) National Primary (NP) sources must operate under the procedures in the
National Control Point Procedures.
(13) The time of receipt of the EAN and Emergency Action Termination
messages shall be entered by analog and digital broadcast stations in their
logs (as specified in Sec. Sec. 73.1820 and 73.1840 of this chapter), by analog and
digital cable systems in their records (as specified in Sec. 76.1711 of this
chapter), by subject wireless cable systems in their records (as specified
in Sec. 21.304 of this chapter), and by all other EAS Participants in their
records as specified in Sec. 11.35(a).
(c) Upon receipt of an Emergency Action Termination Message, EAS
Participants must follow the termination procedures in the EAS Operating
Handbook.
(d) EAS Participants originating emergency communications under this section
shall be considered to have conferred rebroadcast authority, as required by
section 325(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. 325(a), to other
EAS Participants.
(e) During a national level EAS emergency, EAS Participants may transmit in
lieu of the EAS audio feed an audio feed of the President's voice message
from an alternative source, such as a broadcast network audio feed.
[ 59 FR 67092 , Dec. 28, 1994, as amended at 63 FR 29666 , June 1, 1998; 63 FR 39035 , July 21, 1998; 65 FR 21658 , Apr. 24, 2000; 65 FR 53614 , Sept. 5,
2000; 67 FR 18511 , Apr. 16, 2002; 70 FR 71037 , Nov. 25, 2005]
Goto Section: 11.53 | 11.55
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