These were finally posted in the Federal Registry on April 16, and become
effective on May 16, 2002.

(1)   add new state and local event codes, including a Child Abduction Event
Code, and new location c(odes;

(New marine address codes have been added.  This has more to do with NWS than
broadcast.  Some coastal stations and stations on the Great Lakes may wish to
use them.)

Here is the list of event codes that have been added. None of the old codes
have been removed.


Avalanche Warning                       AVW
Avalanche Watch                         AVA
Child Abduction Emergency               CAE
Civil Danger Warning                    CDW
Coastal Flood Warning                   CFW
Coastal Flood Watch                     CFA
Dust Storm Warning                      DSW
Earthquake Warning                      EQW
Fire Warning                            FRW
Hazardous Materials Warning             HMW
Law Enforcement Warning                 LEW
Local Area Emergency                    LAE
Network Message Notification            NMN
911 Telephone Outage Emergency          TOE
Nuclear Power Plant Warning             NUW
Radiological Hazard Warning             RHW
Shelter in Place Warning                SPW
Special Marine Warning                  SMW
Tropical Storm Warning                  TRW
Tropical Storm Watch                    TRA
Volcano Warning                         VOW

Addition of the new event codes and the address codes is voluntary. New EAS
equipment built after Aug 1, 2003 must have the new codes.  Radio, TV and
Cable systems that replace equipment may not replace existing equipment with
an older non upgraded equipment after Feb 1, 2004.


(2)  permit broadcast stations and cable systems to program their EAS equipment
to selectively display and log state and local EAS messages.

(This means you nor your equipment has to log events that you receive but
don't pertain to you or your area.)


(3)  increase the time for retransmitting Required Monthly Tests ("RMTs")
from 15 to 60 minutes of receipt of the RMT message;


(4)  revise the minimum required modulation level of EAS codes;
(Max obtainable, but no less than 50%)


(5)  permit broadcast stations to air the audio of a presidential EAS message
from a higher quality, non-EAS source;    (Stations can't delay.
No waiting for a network feed to start.)


(6)  eliminate references to the now-defunct Emergency Action Notification
("EAN") network;


(7)  eliminate the requirements that international High Frequency ("HF")
broadcast stations purchase and install EAS equipment and cease broadcasting
immediately upon receipt of a national-level EAS message;


(8)  exempt satellite/repeater broadcast stations which rebroadcast 100% of
the programming of their hub station from the requirement to install EAS
equipment;


(9)  authorize cable systems serving fewer than 5,000 subscribers to meet the
October 1, 2002 deadline  by installing certified EAS decoders, to the extent
that such decoders may become available, rather than both encoders and
decoders.


(10)  provide that low power FM stations need not install EAS decoders until
one year after any such decoders are certified by the Commission.


(11)  The definition of County Subdivisions has changed.  We will now have
a North, South, East & West without the added word "Central".