§ 201.2   Definitions.

   The following definitions apply herein:

   (a) Communications common carrier, specialized carrier, or carrier
   means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company,
   trust, or corporation subject to Federal or State regulation engaged in
   providing telecommunications facilities or services, for use by the
   public, for hire.

   (b) Government means Federal, State, county, municipal, and other local
   government authority. Specific qualification will be provided whenever
   reference to a particular level of government is intended.

   (c) Joint Telecommunications Resources Board (JTRB) means that
   organization established by the Director, Office of Science and
   Technology Policy, pursuant to Executive Order 12472 to assist the
   Director, OSTP, in exercising the non-wartime emergency
   telecommunications functions assigned by Executive Order 12472.

   (d) The National Communications System (NCS) means that organization
   established by Executive Order 12472 consisting of the
   telecommunications assets of the entities represented on the NCS
   Committee of Principals and an administrative structure consisting of
   the Executive Agent, the NCS Committee of Principals and the Manager.
   The NCS Committee of Principals consists of representatives from those
   Federal departments, agencies or entities, designated by the President,
   which lease or own telecommunications facilities or services of
   significance to national security and emergency preparedness, and, to
   the extent permitted by law, other Executive entities which bear
   policy, regulatory or enforcement responsibilities of importance to
   national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications
   capabilities. The NCS is a confederative arrangement in which member
   Federal agencies participate with their owned and leased
   telecommunications assets to provide necessary communications services
   for the Federal Government, under all conditions, including nuclear
   war.

   (e) National Coordinating Center (NCC) refers to the joint
   industry-government telecommunications entity established by the NCS
   pursuant to Executive Order 12472 to assist in the initiation,
   coordination, restoration and reconstitution of national security and
   emergency preparedness telecommunications services or facilities under
   all conditions of crisis or emergency.

   (f) National priorities means those essential actions and activities in
   which the government and the private sector must become engaged in the
   interests of national survival and recovery.

   (g) National security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP)
   telecommunications services, or NS/EP services, means those
   telecommunication services which are used to maintain a state of
   readiness or to respond to and manage any event or crisis (local,
   national, or international) which causes or could cause injury or harm
   to the population, damage to or loss of property, or degrades or
   threatens the NS/EP posture of the United States.

   (h) NS/EP treatment refers to the provisioning of a telecommunications
   service before others based on the provisioning priority level assigned
   by the Executive Office of the President.

   (i) National Telecommunications Management Structure (NTMS) means a
   survivable and enduring management structure which will support the
   exercise of the war power functions of the President under section 706
   of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 606), as amended.

   (j) Private sector means those sectors of non-government entities that
   are users of telecommunications services.

   (k) Telecommunications means any transmission, emission, or reception
   of signs, signals, writing, images, graphics, and sounds or
   intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical, or other
   electromagnetic systems.

   (l) Telecommunications resources include telecommunications personnel,
   equipment, material, facilities, systems, and services, public and
   private, wheresoever located within the jurisdiction of the United
   States.

   (m) Wartime emergency means a crisis or event which permits the
   exercise of the war power functions of the President under section 706
   of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 606), as amended.

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