Sec. 201.2  Definitions.

    The following definitions apply herein:
    (a) Communications common carrier, specialized carrier, or carrier 
means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, 
trust, or corporation subject to Federal or State regulation engaged in 
providing telecommunications facilities or services, for use by the 
public, for hire.
    (b) Government means Federal, State, county, municipal, and other 
local government authority. Specific qualification will be provided 
whenever reference to a particular level of government is intended.
    (c) Joint Telecommunications Resources Board (JTRB) means that 
organization established by the Director, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, pursuant to Executive Order 12472 to assist the 
Director, OSTP, in exercising the non-wartime emergency 
telecommunications functions assigned by Executive Order 12472.
    (d) The National Communications System (NCS) means that organization 
established by Executive Order 12472 consisting of the 
telecommunications assets of the entities represented on the NCS 
Committee of Principals and an administrative structure consisting of

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the Executive Agent, the NCS Committee of Principals and the Manager. 
The NCS Committee of Principals consists of representatives from those 
Federal departments, agencies or entities, designated by the President, 
which lease or own telecommunications facilities or services of 
significance to national security and emergency preparedness, and, to 
the extent permitted by law, other Executive entities which bear policy, 
regulatory or enforcement responsibilities of importance to national 
security and emergency preparedness telecommunications capabilities. The 
NCS is a confederative arrangement in which member Federal agencies 
participate with their owned and leased telecommunications assets to 
provide necessary communications services for the Federal Government, 
under all conditions, including nuclear war.
    (e) National Coordinating Center (NCC) refers to the joint industry-
government telecommunications entity established by the NCS pursuant to 
Executive Order 12472 to assist in the initiation, coordination, 
restoration and reconstitution of national security and emergency 
preparedness telecommunications services or facilities under all 
conditions of crisis or emergency.
    (f) National priorities means those essential actions and activities 
in which the government and the private sector must become engaged in 
the interests of national survival and recovery.
    (g) National security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) 
telecommunications services, or NS/EP services, means those 
telecommunication services which are used to maintain a state of 
readiness or to respond to and manage any event or crisis (local, 
national, or international) which causes or could cause injury or harm 
to the population, damage to or loss of property, or degrades or 
threatens the NS/EP posture of the United States.
    (h) NS/EP treatment refers to the provisioning of a 
telecommunications service before others based on the provisioning 
priority level assigned by the Executive Office of the President.
    (i) National Telecommunications Management Structure (NTMS) means a 
survivable and enduring management structure which will support the 
exercise of the war power functions of the President under section 706 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 606), as amended.
    (j) Private sector means those sectors of non-government entities 
that are users of telecommunications services.
    (k) Telecommunications means any transmission, emission, or 
reception of signs, signals, writing, images, graphics, and sounds or 
intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical, or other 
electromagnetic systems.
    (l) Telecommunications resources include telecommunications 
personnel, equipment, material, facilities, systems, and services, 
public and private, wheresoever located within the jurisdiction of the 
United States.
    (m) Wartime emergency means a crisis or event which permits the 
exercise of the war power functions of the President under section 706 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 606), as amended.