agin stave why doy uo refuse to aloow on topic discussion?

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apoligies if I if mispleed any of the filler stuff
post By BB
>From: The ARRL Letter
>Vol. 25, No. 11
>March 17, 2006
>--------------------
>
>==>AMATEUR RADIO POISED TO STAY WITHIN FCC WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
>BUREAU
>
>The FCC approved a proposal March 17 to create a new Public Safety and
>Homeland Security Bureau (PS&HSB) that would assume some functions now
>under
>the umbrella of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB). But it
>appears
>that the Amateur Radio Service--now within the WTB's Public Safety and
>Critical Infrastructure Division, headed by Michael J. Wilhelm,
>WS6BR--will
>remain within the WTB, according to Anthony Dale, Acting Director of
>the
>FCC's Office of Managing Director (OMD).
>
>"The Critical Infrastructure piece--that's things like taxi cabs,
>Amateur
>Radio, chemical plants, all that type of thing--those are not public
>safety-specific functions," Dale said in response to a reporter's
>question
>following the FCC open meeting. "The plan is to keep those in the
>Wireless
>Bureau."
>
>Creation of the new bureau was a topic of some discussion during a
>meeting
>earlier this month of the ARRL Executive Committee. With the complete
>details of the reorganization still uncertain, however, the League is
>adopting a wait-and-see attitude for now.
>
>Mika Savir, an attorney advisor within the FCC's OMD, presented the
>proposal
>to the Commission. "By this action, the Commission would take an
>important
>step to better address public safety, homeland security, national
>security,
>emergency management and preparedness and disaster management," she
>said.
>"As you know, the Commission has a statutory mandate to assist in
>promoting
>the safety of life and property, as well as the national defense,
>through
>the use of communications."
>
>An official document spelling out just which functions and services
>will end
>up where has not yet been made public, and even Dale did not appear to
>be
>entirely clear on specifics. He and others stressed that some PS&HSB
>functions may overlap those of other bureaus.
>
>The FCC said the changes are subject to Congressional notification
>before
>they become effective. In addition, the Commission must work with the
>National Treasury Employees Union Local 209 to secure its approval for
>issues affecting the Commission's workforce.
>
>The last changes affecting the functions of the WTB occurred in 2003.
>This
>reorganization has been several months in the planning. Some observers
>had
>speculated that Amateur Radio would be shifted to the PS&HSB, thus
>removing
>it from the WTB's market-based approach to regulation. Moving some of
>the
>WTB's current responsibilities to the new bureau, however, could speed
>up
>the process of moving Amateur Radio-related proceedings through the
>Commission.
>
>The PS&HSB will have three divisions: Policy, Public Communications
>Outreach
>& Operations, and Communications Systems Analysis. In addition, the
>bureau
>will have a front office consisting of senior leadership and management
>staff.
>
>The new bureau would be the seventh within the FCC. Commissioner
>Michael
>Copps said the proposed reorganization goes beyond "reshuffling" of
>the
>bureaucracy. He expressed the hope that creation of the new Public
>Safety
>and Homeland Security Bureau would be viewed as "the first step in
>putting
>the FCC out front--where it long should have been--in providing
>communications security for all Americans in this dangerous age."
>
>The Commission voted unanimously to approve creation of the new bureau.
replied to by dave hiel
>
>
>Thank you for posting an amateur radio policy item in this sewer.
>
>Dave K8MN
and by Mark Morgan
>nice to have somethng to discuss
>
>OTOH WE are NOT seen as a public saety function. HMMMM not good for
>the safety of ARS freqs id say

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