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The Emergency Alert System
The Federal Communications Commission published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on March 7, 2024. Comments closed on April 8, 2024.
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What the agency says
In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC or the Commission) proposes and seeks comment on implementing a multilingual alert processing model for the Emergency Alert System (EAS) through which brief, pre-scripted (or "template") alert messages that have been pre-translated into the 13 most commonly spoken non-English languages in the United (as well as in English), can be initiated by alert originators for distribution to the public by the TV and radio broadcasters, cable service providers, and other "EAS Participant" services that make up the EAS public alert distribution system. The NPRM also seeks comment a wide range of specific technical, operational, cost and implementation timing issues related to the template alert distribution model.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-04899
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- March 7, 2024
- Comments due
- April 8, 2024
- Dates
- Comments on the NPRM are due on or before April 8, 2024, and reply comments are due on or before May 6, 2024.
- Docket
- PS Docket No. 15-94; FR ID 206752
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 11
- Pages
- 7
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