[EAS] List of EAS State Plans

[Dave Kline]

Sean,

I will respectfully disagree with the requirement/need to individually search for state plans using a search engine.
Certainly, if you are trying to find one state plan, that's OK.
But if you want a comprehensive list, this site has fallen short.

If the FCC cannot keep a current list, then what sort of an example does that set?
Rather than have a list that doesn't work, why don't they just remove it?
A lot of EAS these days seems to be do as I say, not as I do.

This started out innocently enough, but is turning out to be more, or in this case less, than I expected.
I'm just calling them like I see them.
And what I see is not very helpful.

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Dave Kline 
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On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:15 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Dave Kline wrote:
>>In a nutshell, here is what I found:

>>The most recent years listed on/or within plans range from 1996 to 2017. (I did not do an exhaustive search within the plans for additional updates.)
>>A numer of states have no links provided to a state plan.
>>Some plans are password protected.
>>Some links take you to an SBE chapter or a state broadcast association website where you may have to do a lot of digging to actually find the plan.
>>I only found a couple of states that listed, up front when/if their plans had been approved. I didn't dig too far beyond the first couple of page though.

>The state of State EAS plans has greatly improved during the last 10 years. Requiring participants fill out the ETRS forms prompted some SECCs to improve their plans and make the plans more accessible, if only to reduce the number of phone calls they were getting. The FCC web pages and links are often out of date, so you need to practice your google-fu searching for the most current copy.

>The parts of plans which aren't tested, or in some cases not testable, tend to have the most problems when needed.  Not testing doesn't fix anything.

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