Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/05/10/2012-11283/recruitment-of-first-responder-network-authority-board-of-directors
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:: Recruitment of First Responder Network Authority Board of Directors
A Notice by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on 05/10/2012
27442-27443
2012-11283
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2012-11283
Title VI of the Act provides 20 megahertz of spectrum and $7 billion to establish a single nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network. It also establishes FirstNet as an independent authority within NTIA to build, deploy, and operate the network and to hold the single public safety license granted for wireless public safety broadband deployment.[1] The Act also sets forth the structure of FirstNet's Board of Directors.[2] Under the Act, the Board will be responsible for making strategic decisions regarding FirstNet's operations and ensuring the success of Congress's vision for the network. The Act requires that the Board be established no later than August 20, 2012.
The FirstNet Board of Directors will be composed of 15 individuals.[3] The Act names the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget as permanent members of the Board.[4] The Secretary of Commerce will select the remaining 12 members.[5] Each Board member must have expertise in at least one of the following substantive areas: Public safety, technical, network, and financial.[6] In addition, three Board members must represent the collective interests of states, localities, tribes, and territories; three Board members must have served as public safety professionals; and the Board as a whole should reflect geographical and regional diversity as well as rural and urban representation.[7] Responsibilities of the Board will include creating the over-arching strategic framework for the public safety network, ensuring nationwide standards for use and access to the network based on commercial standards, working to deliver economies of scale for public safety, maximizing opportunities for long-term cost savings and improved functionality, integrating federal first responders and public-safety-related uses to maximize the efficiency of the new network, and formulating a fee collection system to ensure FirstNet self-sustainability.
FirstNet Board members will be appointed as federal government employees. FirstNet Board members will be compensated at the daily rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule (approximately $155,000 per year).[8] Each Board member must be a United States citizen, cannot be a registered lobbyist, and cannot be a registered agent of, employed by, or receive payments from, a foreign government. The Board will meet at the call of the Chair and not less than once each quarter. Initial Board members will serve one, two, or three year terms. Subsequent Board members will be appointed for a term of three years, and Board members may not serve more than two consecutive terms.
See Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 § 6201, Public Law 112-96, 126 Stat. 156 (2012).
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