BACKUP POWER

 

 

 

Historical Context

Year

Action/Activity

Notes

2010 DHS Telecommunications Energy Alliance TEA was formed to address telecom & electric sector interdependencies, long term outages (LTOs)
2009 NCS CDEP Report 2/17/09 Communications Dependency on Electric Power Working Group Report
2008 OMB Disapproval Notice 11/28/08 Title: Information Collection Regarding Emergency Backup Power for Communications Assets as Set Forth in the Commission's Rules (47 CFR 12.2). OMB disapproves FCC’s request.
  D.C. Circuit Court Opinion 7/8/08 CTIA v FCC No. 07-1475 (DC Cir.) Court held case in abeyance pending OMB’s action
  FCC Report to Congress 1/30/08 Vulnerability Assessment and Feasibility of Creating Back-Up Emergency Communications System Submitted Pursuant to Public Law No. 110-53 (Cong. Review Act).
2007 Federal Register Notices & Comments 11/07/07  
  FCC Order on Recon 10/04/07; Erratum 10/9/07 Sec. 12.2 Backup Power Rules amended; becomes effective upon OMB approval of information collection requirements
  FCC Public Notice 08/14/07 Public Notice re (7) Petitions for Reconsideration & Clarification filed
  FCC Order 08/2/07 Order extends effective date of 12.2 Rules to 10/9/07
  FCC Order 6/8/07 Implementation of Katrina Panel Recommendations, Amends Sec. 12.2 Backup-Power Rules
  FCC Letter to AT&T 4/23/07 Granting AT&T’s STA request
2006 FCC Public Notice 7/26/06 FCC Requests Comment on Applicability of Katrina Panel Recommendations to All Types of Disasters
  FCC NPRM 6/19/06 Rulemaking to address Katrina Panel Recommendations, Docket EB 06-119
  Katrina Panel Recommendations 6/12/06 Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks
  NSTAC Recommendations re Katrina 3/01/06  
  NSTAC Report to the President Telecommunications and Electric Power Infrastructure Interdependencies 1/2006 
2005 NSTAC Telecoms. & Electric Power Interdependency Task Force Formed to address telecom & electric sector interdependencies, long term outages (LTOs)
  Hurricane Katrina 8/2005 Storm caused catastrophic impacts to comm infrastructures (PSTNs, Long Distance, PSAPs, CATV, Radio). Exposed common weak points in backup power capabilities during prolonged power outages
~ 2000 NSTAC Energy Task Force Final Report Telecommunications Systems Survivability Electric Power Survivability Status Report. Energy Task Force Final Report 8/1988
  NSTAC Energy Task Force 1988-1990  
  NSTAC Telecoms. System Survivability Task Force 1986-1989  
  NSTAC Electromagnetic Pulse [Survivability]Task Force 1983-1985