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Comments Due: February 9, 2017
Reply Comments Due: February 24, 2017
On January 10, 2017, the FCC released a Public Notice seeking comment on a petition filed by the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). ACM asks the Commission to waive closed captioning registration and certification requirements for entities that provide video programming exclusively to public, educational, and governmental access channels (PEG channels) that are not required to provide closed captioning under the FCC’s rules.
Comments may be filed using the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings. The proceeding number is 05-231.
Link to the ACM Petition:
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10825083956243/ACM_Petition%2008.25.2016.pdf
Links to the Public Notice:
Word: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-37A1.docx
PDF: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-37A1.pdf
Text: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-37A1.txt
For more information, contact Eliot Greenwald, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, at 202-418-2235 or e‑mail Eliot.Greenwald@fcc.gov.
American Sign Language (ASL) users may call the FCC’s ASL Consumer Support Line at 844-432-2275 (videophone).