§ 11.21   State and Local Area plans and FCC Mapbook.

   EAS plans contain guidelines which must be followed by EAS
   Participants' personnel, emergency officials, and National Weather
   Service (NWS) personnel to activate the EAS. The plans include the EAS
   header codes and messages that will be transmitted by key EAS sources
   (NP, LP, SP and SR). State and local plans contain unique methods of
   EAS message distribution such as the use of the Radio Broadcast Data
   System (RBDS). The plans also include information on actions taken by
   EAS Participants, in coordination with state and local governments, to
   ensure timely access to EAS alert content by non-English speaking
   populations. The plans must be reviewed and approved by the Chief,
   Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, prior to implementation to
   ensure that they are consistent with national plans, FCC regulations,
   and EAS operation.

   (a) The State EAS Plan contains procedures for State emergency
   management and other State officials, the NWS, and EAS Participants'
   personnel to transmit emergency information to the public during a
   State emergency using the EAS. EAS State Plans should include a data
   table, in computer readable form, clearly showing monitoring
   assignments and the specific primary and backup path for emergency
   action notification (“EAN”) messages that are formatted in the EAS
   Protocol (specified in § 11.31), from the PEP to each station in the
   plan. If a state's emergency alert system is capable of initiating EAS
   messages formatted in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), its EAS State
   Plan must include specific and detailed information describing how such
   messages will be aggregated and distributed to EAS Participants within
   the state, including the monitoring requirements associated with
   distributing such messages. Consistent with the requirements of
   § 11.61(a)(3)(iv), EAS Participants shall provide the identifying
   information required by the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) 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 this section.

   (b) The Local Area plan contains procedures for local officials or the
   NWS to transmit emergency information to the public during a local
   emergency using the EAS. Local plans may be a part of the State plan. A
   Local Area is a geographical area of contiguous communities or counties
   that may include more than one state.

   (c) The FCC Mapbook is based on the consolidation of the data table
   required in each State EAS plan with the identifying data contained in
   the ETRS. The Mapbook organizes all EAS Participants according to their
   State, EAS Local Area, and EAS designation.

   (d) EAS Participants are required to provide the following information
   to their respective State Emergency Communications Committees (SECC)
   within one year from 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:

   (1) A description of any actions taken by the EAS Participant (acting
   individually, in conjunction with other EAS Participants in the
   geographic area, and/or in consultation with state and local emergency
   authorities), to make EAS alert content available in languages other
   than English to its non-English speaking audience(s),

   (2) A description of any future actions planned by the EAS Participant,
   in consultation with state and local emergency authorities, to provide
   EAS alert content available in languages other than English to its
   non-English speaking audience(s), along with an explanation for the
   Participant's decision to plan or not plan such actions, and

   (3) Any other relevant information that the EAS Participant may wish to
   provide, including state-specific demographics on languages other than
   English spoken within the state, and identification of resources used
   or necessary to originate current or proposed multilingual EAS alert
   content.

   (e) Within six months of the expiration of the one-year period referred
   to in subsection (d) of this section, SECCs shall, as determined by the
   Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, provide a
   summary of such information as an amendment to or as otherwise included
   as part of the State EAS Plan filed by the SECC pursuant to this
   section 11.21.

   (f) EAS Participants shall, within 60 days of any material change to
   the information they have reported pursuant to paragraphs (d)(1) and
   (2) of this section, submit letters describing such change to both
   their respective SECCs and the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland
   Security Bureau. SECCs shall incorporate the information in such
   letters as amendments to the State EAS Plans on file with the Bureau
   under this section 11.21.

   [ 72 FR 62134 , Nov. 2, 2007, as amended at  77 FR 16700 , Mar. 22, 2012;
    80 FR 37174 , June 30, 2015;  81 FR 27351 , May 6, 2016]

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