[EAS] Williamsburg, KY monitoring assignments

[Clay Freinwald]

Several of us that subscribe to this list were very involved in the CSRCIC
process you mentioned.
A couple of items to pass on - 

 The FCC expects that there will be SECC's and LECC's to administer the EAS.
Unfortunately 
Not all of these committees exist or are fully functional.  We made some
recommendations 
For changes that will, hopefully, help with that.

The FCC gives the SECC's a couple of jobs ...
1- Create a State EAS Plan
2- Create Monitoring Assignments that will ensure that EAN's will propagate
to all license

The FCC needs a means of making sure that this EAN Propagation system is
working and 
How it is constructed.     The EASNT was designed to evaluate this system,
and there will 
Be more to come.    We made some recommendations as to how the FCC might
better 
Understand how this distribution system functions.

It needs to be understood that the States determine the composition of these
EAS
Committees and how they function.   The FCC has a good deal of authority
over its
Licensees, however, it has no authority over States.   Each one marches to
their own 
Drummer.

Please understand that our sub-group (EAS Plans) only makes recommendations
to the
CSRIC...whether some or all of our recommendations will become actual policy
and/or
Rules remains to be seen.

This process took several months and involves a LOT of discussion with many
stakeholders.
As the moderator of these discussions, and as a State SECC Chair, I was
pleased with the 
Participation level and outcome.    I hope you will be as well.

Now we sit and wait.

Meanwhile - If you are coming to the NAB this year, there will be a number
of EAS
Related events that I encourage you to attend where you can add your voice
to the 
Process of making our EAS even better.

Hope this has been helpful, should you have a specific question, please feel
free to 
Ask.

Clay Freinwald
SECC Chair, Washington State

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Mike McCarthy

Its not a question of propriety.  State EAS plans are as a matter of policy
public records.

MM

On 3/24/2014 11:19 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> At this month's CSIRC meeting the EAS group had a recommendation for 
> including EAS monitoring information with the FCC Universal Licensing 
> Database. I don't know whether the states which don't release their 
> EAS state plans want or don't want that information to be available.

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