# Presentation: 738589

## Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau

- 2006 Annual Report
- January 17, 2007

## PSHSB’s Mission

**	****	****To promote safety of life and property through the use of communications services, by:  **
** ****developing policies that enhance public safety ****	****communications; **
** ****supporting emergency preparedness and ****	****response activities; and **
** ****serving as a resource and information  ****	****clearinghouse on issues of public safety and ****	****homeland security.**

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## Key Priorities

**1. ** **Public Safety**

**2.  Outreach**

**3.  Critical Infrastructure**

**4.   Emergency Preparedness **

**5. **  **Emergency Response**

**6.   COOP/COG **

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**Bureau established September 25  **
**11 Commission level items adopted**
**7,800 public safety licensee grants**
**> 5,000 cases transitioned from other FCC bureaus and offices**

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

## First 100 Days

**Created team to address 800 MHz rebanding to provide dedicated public safety spectrum, free from interference**
**Resolved mediation disputes between public safety and Sprint-Nextel**
**Provided guidance for ongoing negotiations**
**Ensuring availability of spectrum for interoperable public safety communications in 700 MHz band**
**Issued NPRM seeking comment on implementation of nationwide, broadband, interoperable public safety network**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues – 700 and 800 MHz**

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

## First 100 Days

**Congress mandated the establishment of the Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee**
**Established committee, organized and hosted first committee meeting within 60 days, as required**
**Established informal working groups to facilitate committee’s work, first meetings held**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert System**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

## First 100 Days

**Ensured wireless access to emergency services **
**Issued ten orders enforcing E911 requirements consistent with the public interest**
**Work with Disability Rights Office and consumer groups to address access to emergency services for all consumers**
**Participated in the Commission’s November 2006 E911 Disability Access Summit**
**Work with state/federal E911 task force**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

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## First 100 Days

**1. ** **Establishment and Transition**

**2.  Public Safety Spectrum Issues**

**3.  Emergency Alert Systems**

**4.   Access to Emergency Services**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

## First 100 Days

**Partnering with state, federal, local, and tribal authorities to promote public safety**
**Outreach to a variety of stakeholders, such as hospitals and healthcare agencies; public safety answering points; carriers and service providers; associations and user groups; and developers of new technologies**

**5. **  **Coordination and Outreach**

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## Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau