FCC Travel Suspension Affects Plans for Calif. Field Hearing
FCC staff travel suspension amid the COVID-19 pandemic is complicating the timeline for a long-anticipated field hearing in California on cell tower outages during the 2019 wildfires, Chairman Ajit Pai told two members of the state’s House delegation -- Republican…
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Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney. McCarthy invited the FCC to do a field hearing in Kern County, while McNerney pressed for a panel in northern California by June 5 (see 2001300030). “Although I had hoped to hold a field hearing in California in the first half of this year, the FCC has decided to suspend all travel in light of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Pai told McCarthy and McNerney in letters posted Friday. He noted the FCC’s role in encouraging CTIA and the Edison Electric Institute to launch a cross-sector resiliency forum to improve coordination between the wireless and electric power sectors (see 2002270046).