PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
News Media Information 202 / 418-0500
Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
DA 14-531
April 22, 2014
NOTICE OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF ACCESSIBLE EMERGENCY INFORMATION 
RULES AND EMERGENCY INFORMATION/VIDEO DESCRIPTION APPARATUS 
RULES REQUIRING OMB APPROVAL
MB Docket No. 12-107
On April 9, 2013, the Commission released the Emergency Information Order, which 
adopted rules requiring that emergency information provided in video programming be made 
accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired and that certain apparatus be capable 
of delivering video description and emergency information to those individuals.1 Those rules 
became effective on June 24, 2013, except for the rules that require approval by the Office of 
Management and Budget (“OMB”).2 The information collection was submitted to OMB for 
review under 44 U.S.C. § 3507(d) and was approved by OMB on April 9, 2014.3 The 
Commission in the Emergency Information Order stated that these rules will become effective 
upon announcement in the Federal Register of OMB approval and an effective date of the rules.4  
The Commission has published this notice in the Federal Register, announcing an effective date 
  
1 Accessible Emergency Information, and Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video 
Description: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 
2010; Video Description: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video 
Accessibility Act of 2010, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 28 FCC Rcd 
4871 (2013) (“Emergency Information Order”).
2 See Federal Communications Commission, 47 CFR Part 79, Accessible Emergency Information; 
Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video Description: Implementation of the 
Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, Final Rule, 78 FR 31770 
(May 24, 2013).  See also Public Notice, Notice of Effective Date of New Emergency Information Rules 
and Emergency Information/Video Description Apparatus Rules and Announcement of Comment and 
Reply Comment Deadlines for Related Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 28 FCC Rcd 7971 
(2013).  The rules that require OMB approval are Sections 79.105(a), 79.105(b)(3), and 79.105(b)(4), and 
revised Section 79.2(c).
3 See Notice of Office of Management and Budget Action for OMB Control No. 3060-0967 (approved
Apr. 9, 2014), available at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/DownloadNOA?requestID=256372. 
4 Emergency Information Order, 28 FCC Rcd at 4932, ¶ 97.
of April 16, 2014.5 Accordingly, the rules that required OMB approval took effect on April 16, 
2014.
For further information regarding this proceeding, contact Diana Sokolow (202-418-2120; 
diana.sokolow@fcc.gov) or Maria Mullarkey (202-418-2120; maria.mullarkey@fcc.gov).  Press 
contact:  Janice Wise (202-418-8165; janice.wise@fcc.gov).
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5 See Federal Communications Commission, 47 CFR Part 79, Accessible Emergency Information, and 
Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video Description: Implementation of the 
Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, Final Rule; Announcement 
of Effective Date, 79 FR 21399 (Apr. 16, 2014).