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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 DA  06-  2037 
 October  16,  2006 


 FCC  REQUESTS  NOMINATIONS  FOR  MEMBERSHIP  ON  THE  COMMERCIAL  MOBILE  SERVICE  ALERT  ADVISORY  COMMITTEE  TO  BE  ESTABLISHED 
 PURSUANT  TO  THE  WARNING,  ALERT  AND  RESPONSE  NETWORK  ACT. 
 In  this  Public  Notice,  the  Federal  Communications  Commission  (“  Commission”)  seeks  nominations  for  membership  on  its  Commercial  Mobile  Service  Alert  Advisory  Committee 


 (Committee).  The  purpose  of  this  committee  is  to  develop  recommendations  on  technical  standards  and  protocols  to  facilitate  the  ability  of  commercial  mobile  service  providers  to 
 transmit  emergency  alerts  to  their  subscribers  to  the  extent  such  providers  elect  to  do  so.  This  committee  is  being  established  pursuant  to  Section  603  of  the  Warning,  Alert  and  Response 
 Network  Act  (“  WARN  Act”),  which  was  enacted  on  October  13,  2006.  In  order  to  ensure  that  the  Committee  holds  its  first  meeting  within  60  days  of  the  statute’s  enactment  (i.  e.,  no  later 
 than  December  12,  2006),  as  required  by  the  WARN  Act,  the  Commission  is  asking  that  nominations  be  submitted  as  early  as  possible.  Procedures  for  filing  nominations  are  set  forth 
 below. 
 THE  COMMITTEE’S  MISSION 
 Pursuant  to  Section  603(  c)  of  the  WARN  Act,  the  Committee  will  develop  and  submit  recommendations  to  the  Commission: 


 1.  For  protocols,  technical  capabilities,  and  technical  procedures  through  which  electing  commercial  mobile  service  providers  receive,  verify,  and  transmit  alerts  to  subscribers; 
 2.  For  the  establishment  of  technical  standards  for  priority  transmission  of  alerts  by  electing  commercial  mobile  service  providers  to  subscribers; 
 3.  For  relevant  technical  standards  for  devices  and  equipment  and  technologies  used  by  electing  commercial  mobile  service  providers  to  transmit  emergency  alerts  to  subscribers; 
 4.  For  the  technical  capability  to  transmit  emergency  alerts  by  electing  commercial  mobile  service  providers  to  subscribers  in  languages  in  addition  to  English,  to  the  extent 
 practicable  and  feasible; 
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