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]