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FCC 11.55
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 11.55 EAS operation during a State or Local Area emergency.
(a) The EAS may be activated at the State and Local Area levels by EAS
Participants at their discretion for day-to-day emergency situations posing
a threat to life and property. Examples of natural emergencies which may
warrant state EAS activation are: Tornadoes, floods, hurricanes,
earthquakes, heavy snows, icing conditions, widespread fires, etc. Man-made
emergencies warranting state EAS activation may include: Toxic gas leaks or
liquid spills, widespread power failures, industrial explosions, and civil
disorders.
(1) DBS providers shall pass through all EAS messages aired on local
television broadcast stations carried by DBS providers under the
Commission's broadcast signal carriage rules to subscribers receiving those
channels.
(2) SDARS licensees and DBS providers may participate in EAS at the state
and local level and make their systems capable of receiving and transmitting
state and local level EAS messages on all channels. If an SDARS licensee or
DBS provider is not capable of receiving and transmitting state and local
EAS message on all channels, it must inform its subscribers, on its website
and in writing on an annual basis, of which channels are and are not capable
of supplying state and local messages.
(b) EAS operations must be conducted as specified in State and Local Area
EAS Plans. The plans must list all authorized entities participating in the
State or Local Area EAS.
(c) Immediately upon receipt of a State or Local Area EAS message that has
been formatted in the EAS Protocol, EAS Participants participating in the
State or Local Area EAS must do the following:
(1) State Relay (SR) sources monitor the State Relay Network or follow the
State EAS plan for instructions from the State Primary (SP) source.
(2) Local Primary (LP) sources monitor the Local Area SR sources or follow
the State EAS plan for instructions.
(3) Participating National (PN) sources monitor the Local Area LP sources
for instructions.
(4) EAS Participants participating in the State or Local Area EAS must
discontinue normal programming and follow the procedures in the State and
Local Area Plans. Analog and digital television broadcast stations must
transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as specified in
§ 11.51(a) through (e) and 73.1250(h) of this chapter, as applicable; analog
cable systems, digital cable systems, and wireless cable systems must
transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as specified in
§ 11.51(g) and (h); and DBS providers must transmit all EAS announcements
visually and aurally as specified in § 11.51(j). EAS Participants providing
foreign language programming should transmit all EAS announcements in the
same language as the primary language of the EAS Participant.
(5) Upon completion of the State or Local Area EAS transmission procedures,
resume normal programming until receipt of the cue from the SR or LP sources
in your Local Area. At that time begin transmitting the common emergency
message received from the above sources.
(6) Resume normal operations upon conclusion of the message.
(7) The times of the above EAS actions must be entered in the EAS
Participants' records as specified in § § 11.35(a) and 11.54(a)(3).
(8) Use of the EAS codes or Attention Signal automatically grants
rebroadcast authority as specified in § 11.54(b).
(d) Immediately upon receipt of a State or Local Area EAS message that has
been formatted in the Common Alerting Protocol, EAS Participants must do the
following:
(1) EAS Participants participating in the State or Local Area EAS must
follow the procedures for processing such messages in the State and Local
Area Plans.
(2) Analog and digital television broadcast stations must transmit all EAS
announcements visually and aurally as specified in § 11.51(a) through (e) and
73.1250(h) of this chapter, as applicable; analog cable systems, digital
cable systems, and wireless cable systems must transmit all EAS
announcements visually and aurally as specified in § 11.51(g) and (h); and
DBS providers must transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as
specified in § 11.51(j). EAS Participants providing foreign language
programming should transmit all EAS announcements in the same language as
the primary language of the EAS Participant.
(3) Resume normal operations upon conclusion of the message.
(4) The times of the above EAS actions must be entered in the EAS
Participants' records as specified in § § 11.35(a) and 11.54(a)(3).
[ 59 FR 67092 , Dec. 28, 1994, as amended at 63 FR 29666 , June 1, 1998; 65 FR 21658 , Apr. 24, 2000; 67 FR 18511 , Apr. 16, 2002; 70 FR 71037 , Nov. 25,
2005; 71 FR 76220 , Dec. 20, 2006; 72 FR 62135 , Nov. 2, 2007; 77 FR 16706 ,
Mar. 22, 2012]
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