Goto Section: 11.56 | 11.61 | Table of Contents
FCC 11.61
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 11.61 Tests of EAS procedures.
(a) EAS Participants shall conduct tests at regular intervals, as specified
in paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section. Additional tests may be
performed anytime. EAS activations and special tests may be performed in
lieu of required tests as specified in paragraph (a)(4) of this section.
(1) Required Monthly Tests of the EAS header codes, Attention Signal, Test
Script and EOM code.
(i) Tests in odd numbered months shall occur between 8:30 a.m. and local
sunset. Tests in even numbered months shall occur between local sunset and
8:30 a.m. They will originate from Local or State Primary sources. The time
and script content will be developed by State Emergency Communications
Committees in cooperation with affected EAS Participants. Script content may
be in the primary language of the EAS Participant. These monthly tests must
be transmitted within 60 minutes of receipt by EAS Participants in an EAS
Local Area or State. Analog and digital class D non-commercial educational
FM, analog and digital LPFM stations, and analog and digital LPTV stations
are required to transmit only the test script.
(ii) Effective May 31, 2007, DBS providers must comply with this section by
monitoring a state or local primary source to participate in testing. Tests
should be performed on 10% of all channels monthly (excluding
local-into-local channels for which the monthly transmission tests are
passed through by the DBS provider), with channels tested varying from month
to month, so that over the course of a given year, 100% of all channels are
tested.
(2) Required Weekly Tests:
(i) EAS Header Codes and EOM Codes:
(A) Analog and digital AM, FM, and TV broadcast stations must conduct tests
of the EAS header and EOM codes at least once a week at random days and
times. Effective December 31, 2006, DAB stations must conduct these tests on
all audio streams. Effective December 31, 2006, DTV stations must conduct
these tests on all program streams.
(B) Analog cable systems and digital cable systems with 5,000 or more
subscribers per headend and wireless cable systems with 5,000 or more
subscribers must conduct tests of the EAS Header and EOM Codes at least once
a week at random days and times on all programmed channels.
(C) Analog cable systems and digital cable systems serving fewer than 5,000
subscribers per headend and wireless cable systems with fewer than 5,000
subscribers must conduct tests of the EAS Header and EOM Codes at least once
a week at random days and times on at least one programmed channel.
(D) SDARS providers must conduct tests of the EAS Header and EOM codes at
least once a week at random days and times on all channels.
(ii) DBS providers, analog and digital class D non-commercial educational FM
stations, analog and digital LPFM stations, and analog and digital LPTV
stations are not required to transmit this test but must log receipt, as
specified in § 11.35(a) and 11.54(a)(3).
(iii) The EAS weekly test is not required during the week that a monthly
test is conducted.
(iv) EAS Participants are not required to transmit a video message when
transmitting the required weekly test.
(3) National tests. (i) All EAS Participants shall participate in national
tests as scheduled by the Commission in consultation with the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Such tests will consist of the delivery
by FEMA to PEP/NP stations of a coded EAS message, including EAS header
codes, Attention Signal, Test Script, and EOM code. All other EAS
Participants will then be required to relay that EAS message. The coded
message shall utilize EAS test codes as designated by the Commission's
rules.
(ii) A national test shall replace the required weekly and monthly tests for
all EAS Participants, as set forth in paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this
section, in the week and month in which it occurs.
(iii) Notice shall be provided to EAS Participants by the Commission at
least two months prior to the conduct of any such national test.
(iv) Test results as required by the Commission shall be logged by all EAS
Participants into the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) as determined by the
Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, subject to the
following requirements.
(A) EAS Participants shall provide the identifying information required by
the ETRS initially no later than sixty days after the publication in the
Federal Register of a notice announcing the approval by the Office of
Management and Budget of the modified information collection requirements
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and an effective date of the rule
amendment, or within sixty days of the launch of the ETRS, whichever is
later, and shall renew this identifying information on a yearly basis or as
required by any revision of the EAS Participant's State EAS Plan filed
pursuant to § 11.21.
(B) “Day of test” data shall be filed in the ETRS within 24 hours of any
nationwide test or as otherwise required by the Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau.
(C) Detailed post-test data shall be filed in the ETRS within forty five
(45) days following any nationwide test.
(4) EAS activations and special tests. The EAS may be activated for
emergencies or special tests at the State or Local Area level by an EAS
Participant instead of the monthly or weekly tests required by this section.
To substitute for a monthly test, activation must include transmission of
the EAS header codes, Attention Signal, emergency message and EOM code and
comply with the visual message requirements in § 11.51. To substitute for the
weekly test of the EAS header codes and EOM codes in paragraph (a)(2)(i) of
this section, activation must include transmission of the EAS header and EOM
codes. Analog and digital television broadcast stations, analog cable
systems, digital cable systems, wireless cable systems, and DBS providers
shall comply with the aural and visual message requirements in § 11.51.
Special EAS tests at the State and Local Area levels may be conducted on
daily basis following procedures in State and Local Area EAS plans.
(b) Entries shall be made in EAS Participant records, as specified in
§ 11.35(a) and 11.54(a)(3).
[ 70 FR 71038 , Nov. 25, 2005, as amended at 76 FR 12604 , Mar. 8, 2011; 77 FR 16707 , Mar. 22, 2012; 80 FR 37177 , June 30, 2015]
Effective Date Note: At 80 FR 37177 , June 30, 2015, § 11.61 was amended by
revising paragraph (a)(3)(iv). This paragraph contains information
collection and recordkeeping requirements and will not become effective
until approval has been given by the Office of Management and Budget.
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