[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 141 (Friday, July 23, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 43164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18112]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Federal Advisory Committee Act; Emergency Response 
Interoperability Center Public Safety Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice of intent to establish.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 
purpose of this notice is to announce that a Federal Advisory 
Committee, known as the ``Emergency Response Interoperability Center 
Public Safety Advisory Committee'' (hereinafter the ``Committee''), is 
being established.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, Public Safety and 
Homeland Security Bureau, Attn: Gene Fullano, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Room 7-C738, Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Fullano, Federal Communications 
Commission, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, 445 12th 
Street, SW., Room 7-C738, Washington, DC 20554. Telephone: (202) 418-
0492, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Chairman of the Federal Communications 
Commission has determined that the establishment of the Committee is 
necessary and in the public interest in connection with the performance 
of duties imposed on the Federal Communications Commission (``FCC'' or 
``Commission'') by law. The Committee Management Secretariat, General 
Services Administration concurs with the establishment of the 
Committee. The purpose of the Committee is to make recommendations that 
will assist the Commission's Emergency Response Interoperability Center 
(ERIC), an entity established within the Public Safety and Homeland 
Security Bureau, in the development of a technical framework and 
requirements for interoperability in order to ensure that the public 
safety wireless broadband network is interoperable on a nationwide 
basis. In particular, the Committee will provide recommendations to the 
Commission that would assist ERIC as it implements the following policy 
objectives: (1) The adoption of technical and operational requirements 
and procedures to ensure a nationwide level of interoperability; (2) 
the adoption and implementation of requirements and procedures to 
address operability, roaming, priority access, gateway functions and 
interfaces, the interconnectivity of public safety broadband networks, 
and other matters related to the functioning of the nationwide public 
safety broadband network; (3) the adoption of authentication and 
encryption requirements for common public safety broadband applications 
and network use; (4) the coordination of ERIC's policies with other 
entities, including other Federal agencies; and (5) such other policies 
for which ERIC may have responsibilities from time to time.

Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Federal Communications Commission.
[FR Doc. 2010-18112 Filed 7-22-10; 8:45 am]
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