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Emergency Alert System - Wireless Emergency Alerts (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Emergency Alert System - Wireless Emergency Alerts (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts revisions to Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) rules to take advantage of the significant technological changes and improvements experienced by the mobile wireless industry since the passage of the Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act, and deployment of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to improve utility of WEA as a life-saving tool. By this action, the Commission adopts rules that will improve Alert Message content in order to help communities communicate clearly and effectively about imminent threats and local crises. It also adopts rules to meet alert originators' needs for the delivery of the Alert Messages they transmit and creates a framework that will allow emergency managers to test, exercise, and raise public awareness about WEA. Through this action, the Commission hopes to empower state and local alert originators to participate more fully in WEA, and to enhance the utility of WEA as an alerting tool. This book contains: - The complete text of the Emergency Alert System - Wireless Emergency Alerts (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section