United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register author aut Government Organization text government publication eng FR Regulatory Information 2016_register executive 2016-08-06 article Rules and Regulations D09002ee1c7f5001e D09002ee1c7f50088 United States Federal Communications Commission originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopts final rules of a Report and Order requiring submarine cable licensees to report service outages through the network outage reporting systems (NORS). In doing so, the FCC seeks to improve overall submarine cable reliability and resiliency by enhancing the FCC's visibility into the operational status of submarine cables, which will permit the FCC to track and analyze outage trends. The Report and Order requires all submarine cable licensees to report service outages to the FCC, defined as a failure or significant degradation in the performance of a licensee's cable service regardless of whether the traffic can be re-routed to an alternate path. Licensees must report outages, including those caused by planned maintenance, of a portion of a submarine cable system for more than 30 minutes, or the failure or significant degradation of any fiber pair lasing for four hours or more. Lastly, the Report and Order will improve submarine cable deployment conditions and resiliency through better coordination of inter-agency permit review. 81 FR 52354 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-08-08/2016-18610 2016-18610 fr08au16-15 6712-01-P GN Docket No. 15-206 FCC 16-81 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-08-08/2016-18610 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-08-08/html/2016-18610.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-08-08/pdf/2016-18610.pdf Telecommunications Communications Equipment Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements 10 p. 52354 52363 81 FR 52354 Title 47 Part 1 47 CFR Part 1 Title 47 Part 4 47 CFR Part 4 Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Outage Data; Federal Register Vol. 81, Issue RULE 2016-18610 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GN Docket No. 15-206 FCC 16-81 6712-01-P 2016-18610 Final rule.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopts final rules of a Report and Order requiring submarine cable licensees to report service outages through the network outage reporting systems (NORS). In doing so, the FCC seeks to improve overall submarine cable reliability and resiliency by enhancing the FCC's visibility into the operational status of submarine cables, which will permit the FCC to track and analyze outage trends. The Report and Order requires all submarine cable licensees to report service outages to the FCC, defined as a failure or significant degradation in the performance of a licensee's cable service regardless of whether the traffic can be re-routed to an alternate path. Licensees must report outages, including those caused by planned maintenance, of a portion of a submarine cable system for more than 30 minutes, or the failure or significant degradation of any fiber pair lasing for four hours or more. Lastly, the Report and Order will improve submarine cable deployment conditions and resiliency through better coordination of inter-agency permit review.

This rule contains information collection requirements that has not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget. The Federal Communications Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for this rule. Peter Shroyer, Attorney Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418-1575 or peter.shroyer@fcc.gov. Telecommunications Communications Equipment Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Improving Outage Reporting: Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Outage Data , peter.shroyer@fcc.gov http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0712/FCC-16-81A1.pdf http://www.fcc.gov/ibfs Vol. 81, no. 152 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration 2016-08-08 continuing daily deposited born digital 276 p. Table of Contents: AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: KF70.A2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-08-08 P0b002ee1907f83d6 0097-6326 0042-1219 0364-1406 769-004-00000-9 000582072 f:fr08au16 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-08-08 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-08-08/pdf/FR-2016-08-08.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-08-08/xml/FR-2016-08-08.xml fdlp 52321 52587 DGPO 2016-08-06 2024-06-01 FR-2016-08-08 machine generated eng FR FR-2016-08-08 81 152