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FCC 11.21
Revised as of October 1, 2018
Goto Year:2017 |
2019
§ 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) State EAS Plans contain guidelines that must be followed by EAS
Participants' personnel, emergency officials, and National Weather
Service (NWS) personnel to activate the EAS. The Plans 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. State EAS Plans must be
updated on an annual basis. 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. State EAS Plans must include the
following elements:
(1) A list of the EAS header codes and messages that will be
transmitted by key EAS sources (NP, LP, SP, and SR);
(2) Procedures for state emergency management officials, the National
Weather Service, and EAS Participant personnel to transmit emergency
information to the public during an emergency via the EAS, including
the extent to which the state's dissemination strategy for state and
local emergency alerts differs from its Presidential Alerting strategy;
(3) Procedures for state and local activations of the EAS, including a
list of all authorized entities participating in the State or Local
Area EAS;
(4) A monitoring assignment matrix, in computer readable form, clearly
showing monitoring assignments and the specific primary and backup path
for emergency action notification (EAN)/Presidential Alert messages
from the PEP to all key EAS sources (using the uniform designations
specified in § 11.18) and to each station in the plan, organized by
operational areas within the state. 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;
(5) State procedures for conducting special EAS tests and Required
Monthly Tests (RMTs);
(6) A list of satellite-based communications resources that are used as
alternate monitoring assignments and present a reliable source of EAS
messages; and
(7) The SECC governance structure utilized by the state in order to
organize state and local resources to ensure the efficient and
effective delivery of a Presidential Alert, including the duties of the
SECC, the membership selection process utilized by the SECC, and the
administrative structure of the SECC.
(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 monitoring
assignment matrices 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. EAS Participant monitoring assignments and EAS operations
must be implemented in a manner consistent with guidelines established
in a State EAS Plan submitted to the Commission in order for the
Mapbook to accurately reflect actual alert distribution.
(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; 83 FR 37759 , Aug.
2, 2018]
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