[SFDXA] ARLB025 FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be Down for Maintenance

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> ARLB025 FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be
> Down for Maintenance
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> ARRL Bulletin 25  ARLB025
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  August 25, 2015
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
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> ARLB025 FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be
> Down for Maintenance
> 
> FCC website maintenance in early September will make the Universal
> Licensing System (ULS), the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS),
> the Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS) and other public
> applications unavailable for more than 5 days. The Commission said
> the outage will begin at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, September 2, and
> continue through the Labor Day weekend. The maintenance work should
> be completed by 1200 UTC on Tuesday, September 8. During the ULS
> outage, it will not be possible to file any Amateur Radio
> applications.
> 
> "[M]ost Commission resources normally accessible through the
> Commission's website, including access to all electronic filing
> systems and electronic dockets, will be inaccessible for the same
> period, with the exception of the Network Outage Reporting System
> (NORS), the Consumer Help Center (CHC), and the Disaster Information
> Reporting System (DIRS), which will remain available," an FCC Public
> Notice said on August 20. "The Commission's website will remain
> available, but with reduced content and limited search
> capabilities." According to the Public Notice, the FCC will follow
> its normal schedule of operation during the maintenance period, but
> voicemail will be offline, and most Commission staffers will not
> have access to e-mail. Static content webpages on the fcc.gov
> domain, such as the FCC consumer guides, should remain available
> during the outage.
> 
> The FCC will extend filing deadlines for all regulatory and
> enforcement filings that fall during the maintenance period. Filings
> due on September 2, 3, 4, or 8 now will be due on Wednesday,
> September 9. "Except for the due dates specified herein, we are not
> automatically extending the deadlines for any other comment or
> filing periods that will be running during this time period, but
> requests for extension of time will be considered consistent with
> the Commission's normal practice," the FCC Public Notice said. "To
> the extent the due dates for filings to which reply or responsive
> pleadings are allowed are affected by this Public Notice, the due
> dates for reply or responsive pleadings shall be extended by the
> same number of days."
> 
> In a blog, "Modernizing the FCC's IT," FCC CIO David Bray said that
> with the world and the technology we use are changing rapidly, "the
> information technology used by the Federal Communications Commission
> must change as well." Bray said the FCC has "made significant
> progress to upgrade and modernize our infrastructure, and we
> continue to work on modernizing the FCC's legacy IT systems with the
> resources we have available."
> 
> "We understand that this temporary downtime before and during the
> Labor Day Weekend may be inconvenient for some FCC stakeholders,"
> Bray added.
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