§ 11.21   State and Local Area plans and FCC Mapbook.

   EAS plans contain guidelines which must be followed by EAS Participants'
   personnel, emergency officials, and National Weather Service (NWS) personnel
   to activate the EAS. The plans include the EAS header codes and messages
   that will be transmitted by key EAS sources (NP, LP, SP and SR). State and
   local plans contain unique methods of EAS message distribution such as the
   use of the Radio Broadcast Data System (RBDS). The plans must be reviewed
   and approved by the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, prior
   to implementation to ensure that they are consistent with national plans,
   FCC regulations, and EAS operation.

   (a) The State EAS Plan contains procedures for State emergency management
   and other State officials, the NWS, and EAS Participants' personnel to
   transmit emergency information to the public during a State emergency using
   the EAS. EAS State Plans should include a data table, in computer readable
   form, clearly showing monitoring assignments and the specific primary and
   backup path for emergency action notification (“EAN”) messages that are
   formatted in the EAS Protocol (specified in § 11.31), from the PEP to each
   station in the plan. If a state's emergency alert system is capable of
   initiating EAS messages formatted in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), its
   EAS State Plan must include specific and detailed information describing how
   such messages will be aggregated and distributed to EAS Participants within
   the  state,  including  the  monitoring  requirements  associated with
   distributing  such  messages.  Consistent  with  the  requirements  of
   § 11.61(a)(3)(iv), EAS Participants shall provide the identifying information
   required by the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) no later than sixty days
   after the publication in the Federal Register of a notice announcing the
   approval by the Office of Management and Budget of the modified information
   collection requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and an
   effective date of the rule amendment, or within sixty days of the launch of
   the ETRS, whichever is later, and shall renew this identifying information
   on a yearly basis or as required by any revision of the EAS Participant's
   State EAS Plan filed pursuant to this section.

   (b) The Local Area plan contains procedures for local officials or the NWS
   to transmit emergency information to the public during a local emergency
   using the EAS. Local plans may be a part of the State plan. A Local Area is
   a geographical area of contiguous communities or counties that may include
   more than one state.

   (c) The FCC Mapbook is based on the consolidation of the data table required
   in each State EAS plan with the identifying data contained in the ETRS. The
   Mapbook organizes all EAS Participants according to their State, EAS Local
   Area, and EAS designation.

   [ 72 FR 62134 , Nov. 2, 2007, as amended at  77 FR 16700 , Mar. 22, 2012;  80 FR 37174 , June 30, 2015]

   Effective Date Note: At  80 FR 37174 , June 30, 2015, § 11.21(a) was revised.
   This  paragraph  contains  information  collection  and  recordkeeping
   requirements and will not become effective until approval has been given by
   the Office of Management and Budget.

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Subpart B—Equipment Requirements

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