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The Emergency Alert System Fact Sheet

Overview The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is designed to provide the President with a means to address the American people in the event of a national emergency. Through the EAS, the President would have access to thousands of broadcast stations, cable systems and participating satellite programmers to transmit a message to the public. The EAS and its predecessors, CONELRAD and the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), have never been activated for this purpose. But beginning in 1963, the President permitted state and local level emergency information to be transmitted using the EBS.

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Publisher
State of Louisiana
File Format
HTML
Date Published
Feb 15, 2005
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White Papers
Topics
Decision Support Systems, Physical Infrastructure Protection

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