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FCC 201.2
Revised as of October 1, 2011
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2012
§ 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
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.
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