[EAS] Who and when should 000000 be used?

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Harold Price wrote:
> "As a final criterion, we concluded that the EAS Operating Handbook
> should be written to the operator on duty to give that person the
> information needed to handle the FCC-required EAS alerts. To maintain
> this focus, we eliminated any superfluous details that are not needed
> by the operator on duty to relay or originate the alerts required in
> the EAS rules. This resulted in a very clean and straightforward
> updated Handbook. We strongly recommend that no other content be
> added to the Handbook"

As I said, the FCC is just following industry's advice.

Has any operator on duty looked at the EAS Operating Handbook in the last 
20 years, other than showing it to an FCC inspector?

Does recommending the creation of non-existant document, which neither 
FEMA nor the FCC has any funding to create, and industry didn't volunteer
to write sound like a real plan?  Usually the "Repeal" part gets done, but 
rarely the "Replace" part.

Although the FCC requires State EAS plans, neither FEMA nor the FCC has 
published a "National EAS Plan" in over 20 years. The last "National 
Emergency Broadcast System Plan" was published in the 1980s.

It might have been more useful to eliminate the requirement for an 
"operator" handbook, which operators didn't use anyway.  And instead
CSRIC could have mede the existing handbook useful for EAS participants.
But that wasn't the choice the working group made.