Location: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau invites public comment on the petition for rulemaking filed by the California Public Utilities Commission. The CPUC requests that the FCC grant state public utilities commissions direct access to the Commission's Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) database. The CPUC also informally requests that the Commission act to allow the CPUC password-protected access to the NORS database that is "limited to California-specific disruption and outage data." NORS is the web-based filing system through which certain communications providers submit reports to the Commission of disruptions to communications as required by the FCC's rules. Reports of service disruptions filed in NORS are presumed to be confidential. Currently, the FCC shares NORS data only with the Department of Homeland Security.
