Multilingual Emergency Alert System Order

In this Order we reaffirm our commitment to promoting the delivery of Emergency Alert System (EAS) alerts to as wide an audience as technically feasible, including to those who communicate in a language other than English or may have a limited understanding of the English language. Specifically, to promote and better understand the landscape of multilingual alerting across the country we will now require State EAS Plans to include a description of the manner, if any, in which EAS Participants (including broadcasters, cable systems, and other service providers), make available EAS alert message content to persons who communicate in languages other than English. We will require EAS Participants to furnish such information to State Emergency Communications Committees (SECC) upon SECC request so that the SECCs can compile this data and submit it as part of their State EAS Plan.