[EAS] 'Amendment of the Emergency Alert System'

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> Most EAS Chairs and Committee members are volunteers. Many of us have just
> finished writing our plans. It will be difficult to find people with the
> time to do all this on a volunteer basis, even as some of us work on our own
> multi-lingual committees...

Because some folks told the FCC that their state EAS plans are funded by 
state government, the FCC assumed that all all state EAS plans were 
funded by state governments.  The Paperwork Reduction Act report 
catagorized preparation and maintenance of state EAS plans, as a state 
government burden; not an industry burden.

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=201603-3060-014
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/DownloadDocument?objectID=63397201

I submitted comments to OMB pointing out that in most states, the SECC is 
not funded by a state agency. It is a voluntary, industry funded 
activity. The new PRA analysis as of July 25, 2016 has changed the state 
EAS plan burden calculation back to industry.

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201607-3060-012
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/DownloadDocument?objectID=63397201

So, at least OMB changes things based on comments from the public.