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For Immediate Release:                                                News Media Contact
October 14, 2009                                                          Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418-0511
 e-mail: rosemary.kimball@fcc.gov
FCC ANNOUNCES THE PUBLIC LAUNCH OF THE ELECTRONIC COMMENT FILING 
SYSTEM (ECFS) VERSION 2.0
New System Advances Public Interaction in Rule Making
Presentation on New System to Be Held October 23
Washington DC -- Since 1998, the Federal Communication Commission’s Electronic 
Comment Filing System (ECFS) has successfully served the Commission’s goal of providing 
consumer access and transparency to the rulemaking process.  The FCC has now upgraded 
and enhanced the ECFS and will present the changes at a public forum at FCC Headquarters 
on Friday, October 23, from 9:30 to 11:00 AM.  The presentation will be held in the 
Commission Meeting Room.
ECFS was originally launched in October 1998 as a mechanism to allow electronic 
submission and query of rulemakings before the Commission.  The system tracks all open 
proceedings and contains all formal rulemaking items and comments from 1992 to the 
present. 
New Features
With the 2.0 upgrade, ECFS will including many new features, including fully Section 
508 compliance; the ability for users to file multiple documents to multiple rulemakings in a 
single submission; advanced search and query of rulemakings; ability to extract comments; 
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds; and the ability to export data results to Excel or PDF 
formats.  
Public Demonstration
The FCC will hold a public presentation on Friday, October 23, from 9:30 to 11:00 AM 
in the Commission Hearing Room to provide information about the upgraded system and to 
give citizens an opportunity to discuss the future uses and capabilities of the FCC’s comment 
filing system.
The presentation will be conducted by Bill Cline, Chief of the Reference Information 
Center. Please have proper identification and allow sufficient time for the security check into 
the building.
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