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responses and release our verification 

reports prior to issuance of the 

preliminary results. Because the 

Department requires additional time to 

address the above, it is not practicable 

to complete this review within the 

original time limit (i.e., May 10, 2010). 

Accordingly, the Department is 

extending the time limit for completion 

of the preliminary results of this 

administrative review by 120 days (i.e., 

September 7, 2010), in accordance with 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(2). We intend to issue 

the final results no later than 120 days 

after publication of the preliminary 

results notice. 

This extension is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i) of the Act. 

Dated: May 4, 2010. 

John M. Andersen, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

[Docket No. 100504211–0211–01] 

Notice of a Grant With the Public 

Broadcasting Service 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a grant to the Public 

Broadcasting Service. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) announces its 

intent to award a grant to the Public 

Broadcasting Service (PBS), a private, 

nonprofit corporation whose members 

are America’s public television stations. 

The PBS mission is to acquire and 

distribute quality children’s, cultural, 

educational, history, nature, news, 

public affairs and science television 

programming and related services to 356 

noncommercial stations serving all 50 

states and the U.S. territories through a 

satellite interconnection system. This 

grant will support development of the 

Commercial Mobile Alert System 

(CMAS), a national system to distribute 

emergency alert messages to the 

American public via commercial mobile 

service (CMS) devices (e.g., cellular 

telephones). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Cooperman, Director, Public 

Broadcasting Division, telephone: (202) 

482–5802; Fax: (202) 482–2156; e-mail: 

wcooperman@ntia.doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Statutory Authority: Section 3010 of 

the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, 

Public Law 109–171, 120 Stat. 4, 26–27 

(Feb. 8, 2006) (establishing the National 

Alert and Tsunami Warning Program); 

Section 606 of the SAFE Port Act, 

Public Law 109–347, 120 Stat. 1884, 

1941 (Oct. 13, 2006) (directing NTIA to 

compensate public television station 

licensees or permittees for reasonable 

costs incurred in complying with the 

requirements to support the distribution 

of geographically targeted alerts by 

commercial mobile service providers). 

Background 

Section 3010 of the Deficit Reduction 

Act of 2005 directed NTIA to establish 

a National Alert and Tsunami Warning 

Program and provided up to $156 

million during fiscal years 2007 through 

2012 from the Digital Television 

Transition and Public Safety Act fund to 

pay for this effort. NTIA was directed to 

implement a unified national alert 

system capable of alerting the public, on 

a national, regional, or local basis to 

emergency situations by using a variety 

of communications technologies. 

Congress subsequently enacted the 

WARN Act, Title VI of the SAFE Port 

Act, directing NTIA’s expenditure of 

some of the funds provided under 

Section 3010 of the Deficit Reduction 

Act. The WARN Act set forth 

requirements to enable alerting 

capability for commercial mobile 

service providers that voluntarily elect 

to transmit emergency alerts as part of 

a national emergency alerting system. 

NTIA was directed to fund certain 

aspects of those activities in section 606 

of the WARN Act, including 

compensating public television 

broadcasters for their reasonable costs to 

comply with the requirements imposed 

by section 602(c) of the WARN Act. 

Section 602(c) directed the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC) to 

adopt regulations to require public 

television broadcasters to install 

necessary equipment and technologies 

on, or as part of, any broadcast 

television digital signal transmitter to 

enable the distribution of geographically 

targeted alerts by commercial mobile 

service providers that have elected to 

transmit emergency alerts. 

On July 8, 2008, the FCC adopted 

rules requiring public television stations 

to install equipment and technologies to 

enable them to distribute geo-targeted 

emergency alerts to participating CMS 

providers. See The Commercial Mobile 

Alert System, Second Report and Order 

and Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (Second Report), PS Dkt. 

No. 07–087, 23 F.C.C. Rcd. 10765 (July 

8, 2008). The Second Report specified 

the functionality that must be built at 

the nation’s public television stations 

and at a central collector to permit the 

public broadcasting system to provide a 

redundant pathway as one part of a 

national alerting system. The Second 

Report identified five types of 

equipment (Geo-targeting Systems, 

Groomers, Data Receivers, PBS 

Equipment, and Back-up Power 

Equipment) recommended by the 

Association of Public Television 

Stations (APTS) for this purpose. The 

Second Report also acknowledged that 

PBS or a similarly situated entity would 

provide the interface feed between the 

Alert Gateway, the national emergency 

message aggregator through which 

emergency messages would be 

disseminated, and the public broadcast 

television stations. 

NTIA received an unsolicited 

proposal from PBS, which seeks funding 

on behalf of all affected public 

television stations as well as for 

elements of CMAS to be performed by 

PBS. APTS, an organization 

representing America’s public television 

stations, has endorsed the proposal. The 

PBS proposal included the elements 

supported by APTS in its FCC filings 

and discussed by the FCC in the Second 

Report. NTIA has reviewed the PBS 

proposal pursuant to Department of 

Commerce policy and intends to award 

PBS a non-competitive grant under the 

authority of the Deficit Reduction Act of 

2005 and the WARN Act to cover the 

costs of equipment necessary for public 

television stations to install equipment 

and systems to comply with the FCC 

requirements of the Second Report. PBS 

is uniquely qualified and best able to 

administer this award because it 

manages the national public television 

interconnection system, which will be 

the redundant pathway used by the 

public television stations for this 

national emergency alerting system; it 

has the demonstrated ability to work 

collaboratively with the public 

television stations to implement the 

project in the limited timeframe 

required by the FCC; and its 

management has the technical skills to 

implement and administer the project. 

Dated: May 4, 2010. 

Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, 

Associate Administrator, Office of 

Telecommunications and Information 

Applications. 

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