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Emergency Alert System; Wireless Emergency Alerts
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on June 17, 2024. It took effect on July 17, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved until May 31, 2027, an information collection associated with the Commission's Third Report and Order, FCC 23-88 (Order), in which the Commission, among other things, adopted a new rule that provided Participating Commercial Mobile Service (CMS) Providers may support up to two Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) tests that the public receives by default per county or county equivalent per calendar year. This document is consistent with the Order, which stated the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of the new rules.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-13194
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; announcement of effective date
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- June 17, 2024
- Takes effect
- July 17, 2024
- Dates
- The amendment of 47 CFR 10.350(d) published at 88 FR 86824 on December 15, 2023, is effective on July 17, 2024.
- Docket
- PS Docket Nos. 15-94 and 15-91; FCC 23-88; FR ID 225472
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 10
- Pages
- 2
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