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RIN: 3060-AI22

Publication ID: Fall 2008

Title: Commission Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications
Abstract: The Report and Order extended the Commission's disruption reporting requirements to communications providers who are not wireline carriers. The Commission also streamlined compliance with the reporting requirements through electronic filing with a "fill in the blank" template and by simplifying the application of that rule. In addition, the Commission delegates authority to the Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, to make the revisions to the filing system and template necessary to improve the efficiency of reporting and to reduce, where reasonably possible, the time for providers to prepare, and for the Commission staff to review, the communications disruption reports required to be filed. Such authority was subsequently delegated to the Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. These actions will allow the Commission to obtain the necessary information regarding service disruptions in an efficient and expeditious manner and to achieve significant concomitant public interest benefits. The Commission received nine petitions for reconsideration in this proceeding, which are pending. The further notice of proposed rulemaking expands the record in the proceeding to focus specifically on the unique communications needs of airports, including wireless and satellite communications. In this regard, the Commission requested comment on the additional types of airport communications (e.g., wireless, satellite) that should be required to file service disruption reports--particularly from a homeland security and defense perspective. These types of airport communications may include, for example, communications that are provided by ARINC as well as commercial communications (e.g., air-to-ground and ground-to-air telephone communications) as well as intra-airline commercial links. The Commission also requested comment on whether the outage-reporting requirements for special facilities should be extended to cover general aviation airports (GA) and, if so, what the applicable threshold criteria should be.
Agency: Federal Communications Commission(FCC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: Undetermined	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 47 CFR 0 47 CFR 4 47 CFR 63
Legal Authority: 47 USC 151 47 USC 154(i) 47 USC 303(r)

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	03/26/2004	69 FR 15761
FNPRM	11/26/2004	69 FR 68859
R&O	12/03/2004	69 FR 70316
Announcement of Effective Date and Partial Stay	12/30/2004	69 FR 78338
Petition for Recon	02/15/2005	70 FR 7737
Amendment of Delegated Authority	02/21/2008	73 FR 9462
Next Action Undetermined	To Be Determined

Additional Information: ET Docket No. 04-35
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Governmental Jurisdictions, Organizations
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes
Agency Contact: Lisa Fowlkes Bureau Chief Federal Communications Commission Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554 Phone:202 418-7452 Email: lisa.fowlkes@fcc.gov