[EAS] The 2017 EAS Handbook for LP-1's

[Kenyon, Alfred]

Paul, 

Here's what the Virginia State EAS Plan has to say about RMTs:

Each Local Area Emergency Communications Committee, along with the local area chairman, should coordinate, and publish a Required Monthly Test (RMT) schedule for that local area considering the programming needs of all Broadcast, TV, and Cable operations in their local area. This schedule should adhere to FCC Part 11 Rules and Regulations with regard to times of broadcast. The committee should publish this schedule each calendar year in an effort to coordinate the RMT with the programming needs of all concerned.

Each Local Area in Virginia will be responsible for conducting the RMT, originating from the LP station in that Local Area. All broadcast stations and subject cable systems should retransmit the RMT exactly as it is received.

Since you are listed as the Local Area Chair for Eastern Virginia what you say agrees perfectly well with the State Plan.

This is a good illustration of why the CSRIC EAS Handbook Working Group had to leave the LP-1's involvement with RMTs pretty vague. 

YMMV but you might consider changing the last of your three sentences to read: " Other RMTs are locally generated according to the Virginia State EAS Plan and are log-only."

I appreciate your interest in and support of EAS.

Regards,

AL KENYON
IPAWS Customer Support Branch Chief
IPAWS Program Office, Continuity Communications Division
National Continuity Programs
Department of Homeland Security - FEMA
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