FCC Opposes MMTC En Banc Appeal on Multilingual EAS
The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council’s request for an en banc rehearing of its case for multilingual emergency alert system rules should be rejected because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s ruling (see 1712080070) doesn’t conflict…
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with other court decisions or raise novel issues, the FCC said in a respondent brief. The decision “applied settled principles of law” and the MMTC petition for rehearing should be denied, the agency said. The original rule committed to gathering information on multilingual alerts, and members of the public who don't understand English have other ways to get emergency information, the agency argued. MMTC plans for multilingual EAS alerts would have required a massive restructuring of the system, and rejecting such a plan was reasonable, the regulator said. “The panel determined that the agency was reasonable in seeking to obtain a complete record before concluding its examination of what is a complex and difficult issue.”