[EAS] Proposed Error Reporting

[Gary Timm]

Oh well, so much for Comments on this proposal, now turned rule.
My apologies to the magazine editors for any criticisms.
Interesting that they had the actual R&O before it was posted on FCC.gov.

To anyone who wants to access the adopted R&O/FNPRM, see:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-promotes-emergency-alert-reliability-0
That webpage has both the Word and PDF version.

Here is the actual FCC rule we are questioning (note it does not contain the disclaimer "if EAS Participant has no actual knowledge" contained in the Order's discussion section that Sean sent us below).

§_11.45_Prohibition_of_false_or_deceptive_EAS_transmissions.
(b)No later than twenty-four (24) hours of an EAS Participant's discovery (i.e., actual knowledge) that it has transmitted or otherwise sent a false alert to the public, the EAS Participant send an email to the Commission at the FCC Ops Center atFCCOPS at fcc.gov, informing the Commission of the event and of any details that the EAS Participant may have concerning the event. 

Gary Timm
WI SECC

From: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>

The EAS Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking has
been published on the FCC.GOV website.

It has been revised since the draft R&O before the Commission meeting.

The new R&O added as part of the new rule (not the proposed rule), a False
Alert Reporting requirement:

"Accordingly, we revise our rules to require that no later than
twenty-four (24) hours of an EAS Participant's discovery that it has
transmitted or otherwise sent a false alert to the public, the EAS
Participant send an email to the FCC Ops Center (at FCCOPS at fcc.gov),59
informing the Commission of the event and of any details that the EAS
Participant may have concerning the event. If an EAS Participant has no
actual knowledge that it has issued a false alert, then it would not be
required to take any action. In the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
below, we seek comment on additional proposals for the reporting of false
EAS alerts."

As part of the the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, there is also a
False Alert Reporting proposal.

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