Emergency Communications: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings
Description:
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is built on a structure conceived in the 1950s when over-the-air broadcasting was the best-available technology for widely disseminating emergency alerts. Bills in the 109th Congress that would improve emergency alert systems, domestically and internationally, include S. 50 (Senator Inouye) and H.R. 296 (Representative Menendez); these bills were prompted by the tsunami disaster but include measures that also apply to the need for a better all-hazard warning sys…
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Date:
July 17, 2006
Creator:
Moore, Linda K.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department