[HoustonHam] Fw: [NARS] Breaking News: FCC Okays EmployeeParticipation in EmergencyDrills

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

> FYI -
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> FCC Okays Employee Participation in Emergency Drills
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> Moving with unaccustomed speed, the FCC adopted a Report and Order on July
> 14, allowing hams who are employed by both government agencies and
> non-government agencies such as hospitals, to participate in emergency and
> disaster drills on behalf of their employers. The ruling was based on a
> Notice of Proposed Rule Making, WP-10-72, issued this past March, in
> response to petitions arising from a strict interpretation by the FCC's
> Enforcement Bureau of the prohibition on amateurs communicating on behalf 
> of
> their employers. The decision came just more than a month after the reply
> comment deadline.
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> The ruling added a new paragraph to Section 97.113(a)(3) of the FCC rules,
> which reads as follows:
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> (i) A station licensee or control station operator may participate on 
> behalf
> of an employer in an
> emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or drill, limited to the
> duration and scope of such test or
> drill, and operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill.
> Tests or drills that are not
> government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour per week;
> except that no more than twice in
> any calendar year, they may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72
> hours.
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> There is no specific effective date given in the Report and Order, so it
> will presumably become effective upon publication in the Federal Register.
> The complete text of the report and order may be accessed online at <
> http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.pd
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> <http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.p
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> Joe
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> W5JDM
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