DA-21-1352
									OMB Control No. 3060-1283
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU REMINDS SUBMARINE CABLE OPERATORS OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF NEW OUTAGE REPORTING RULES


GN DOCKET NO. 15-206

	The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the information collection associated with the Report and Order Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data, GN Docket No. 15-206, Report and Order, 31 FCC Rcd 7947 (2016).
 and Order on Reconsideration Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data, GN Docket No. 15-206, Order on Reconsideration, 34 FCC Rcd 13054 (2019) (Recon. Order). 
 to improve outage reporting for submarine cables and enhanced submarine cable outage data. OMB Control # 3060-1283. 
  By Public Notice, the Commission reminds submarine cable providers that the compliance date for these new rule provisions requiring mandatory reporting of qualifying submarine cable outages is October 28, 2021. Federal Communications Commission, Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data, 86 Fed Reg. 22360 (Apr. 28, 2021); Recon. Order, 34 FCC Rcd at 13067, para. 42.


	Specifically, submarine cable licensees must report unplanned outages greater than 30 minutes on a portion of the cable system between submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) or greater than four hours when it affects a fiber pair. Recon. Order, 34 FCC Rcd at 13057-9, para. 11, 16-18. 
  Licensees must submit this information using the FCC’s Network Outage Reporting System (NORS). Network Outage Reporting System (Feb. 3, 2021), https://www.fcc.gov/network-outage-reporting-system-nors. 
  The NORS user manual and glossary, including information on filing submarine cable outage reports, may be found at: https://www.fcc.gov/files/nors-user-manualpdf.   

Questions regarding filing submarine cable outage reports should be directed to Julia Tu at (202) 418-0731 or julia.tu@fcc.gov, Engineer, or Scott Cinnamon at (202) 418-2319 or scott.cinnamon@fcc.gov, Attorney-Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division.
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