Groups Want Mandatory DIRS Comment Deadline Extended Due to Net Neutrality Vote
Public Knowledge, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates and several other groups want the FCC to grant a two-week extension of comment deadlines for responses to the agency’s outage reporting Further NPRM (see 2401250064), which proposes requiring broadcasters,…
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satellite companies and broadband Internet access service providers to make reports to the disaster information reporting system. The groups, which also include New America’s Open Technology Institute, The Utility Reform Network and Communications Workers of America, want the extension to push the deadlines after the FCC’s upcoming net neutrality vote and to account for the Passover holiday. Currently, comments are due April 29, just four days after the net neutrality vote. “The subject matter is intimately tied to the Commission’s scheduled vote on the reclassification of broadband as a Title II service,” said the joint motion for extension. “A brief delay of two weeks will permit parties to review the Reclassification Order, and reflect the legal authorities and discussion relating to network resiliency included in the final Order.” The current comment day also falls on the seventh day of Passover, “a religious day when work is prohibited,” the joint filing said. If granted, the extension would move the deadline for comments to May 13 and replies to June 11.