G/TBT/N/USA/2115  
19 April 2024  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [2146]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicate d if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts; Product and company 
certificat ion. Conformity assessment (ICS code(s): 03.120.20); Alarm and warning 
systems (ICS code(s): 13.320); Radiocommunications (ICS code(s): 33.060); Mobile 
services (ICS code(s): 33.070)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The Emergency 
Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts; (13 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - In this document, the Federal Communications 
Commission (Commission) seeks comment on a proposal to adopt a new Emergency Alert 
Syste m (EAS) event code for the delivery of critical messages to the public over television 
and radio about missing and endangered persons.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safe ty 
8. Relevant documents:   
89 Federal Register (FR) 27699, 18 April 2024; Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 
Part 11 : 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-04-18/html/2024 -08271.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-04-18/pdf/2024 -08271.pdf  
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC -24-30A1.pdf  
This proposed rule is identified by PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94; FCC 24 -30 and provides 
access to associated documents. The full text of the proposed rule is available from the 
Commission's website at https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -proposes -new-emergency -
alert-code-missing -endangered -adults . Documents are also accessible from the FCC's G/TBT/N/USA/2115  
 
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  Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS)  by searching the Docket Number. 
Comments are due on or before 4pm Eastern Time  20 May 2024 and reply comments are 
due on or before 4pm Eastern Time  17 June 2024. WTO Members and their stakeholders 
are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or before 4pm Eastern 
Time on 17 June 2024. Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO 
Members and their stakeholders will be shared with FCC and will also be submitted to the 
FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS)  if received within the comment period.  
USA/1227, subsequent addenda and corrigendum  - Wireless Emergency Alerts; 
Emergency Alert System  
USA/2087 and Corr.1  - Emergency Alert System; Wireless Emergency Alerts  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  17 June 2024  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/24_02698_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/24_02698_01_e.pdf