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Resilient Networks; Disruptions to Communications
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 21, 2025. It took effect on February 20, 2025.
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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 the information collection associated with the rule adopted in a Second Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Resilient Networks Second Report and Order) requiring cable communications, wireless, wireline, and interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to report their infrastructure status information in the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) daily when the Commission activates DIRS in geographic areas in which they provide service, even when their reportable infrastructure has not changed compared to the prior day. It also codifies, in the Commission's outage reporting rules, that a subject provider's Networks Outage Reporting System reporting obligations are waived while they report in DIRS and requires that subject providers who report in DIRS provide a single, final DIRS report to the Commission, within 24 hours of the Commission's deactivation of DIRS, that provides the status of their infrastructure identified to the Commission during the DIRS reporting period that has not yet been fully restored at the time of the deactivation. This document is consistent with the Resilient Networks Second Report and Order, which states the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing a compliance date for the rule section and revise the rule accordingly.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-00495
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule, announcement of compliance date
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- January 21, 2025
- Takes effect
- February 20, 2025
- Dates
- Effective February 20, 2025. Compliance with 47 CFR 4.18, published at 89 FR 25535, on April 11, 2024, and 89 FR 32373 on April 26, 2024, is required as of February 20, 2025. In addition, this document removes 47 CFR 4.18(c), which advised that compliance with the new rules would not be required until Sec. 4.18(c) is removed or the Commission announces a compliance date.
- Docket
- PS Docket Nos. 21-346, 15-80; ET Docket No. 04-35; FCC 24-5; FR ID 272202
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 4
- Topics
- Communications equipment; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Telecommunications
- Pages
- 2
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