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   ARLB025 FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be   
   Down for Maintenance   
      
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   ARRL Bulletin 25  ARLB025   
   > From ARRL Headquarters   
   Newington CT  August 25, 2015   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
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   ARLB025 FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be Down for   
   Maintenance   
      
   FCC website maintenance in early September will make the Universal Licensing   
   System (ULS), the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), the Electronic   
   Document Management System (EDOCS) and other public applications unavailable   
   for more than 5 days. The Commission said the outage will begin at 2200 UTC on   
   Wednesday, September 2, and continue through the Labor Day weekend. The   
   maintenance work should be completed by 1200 UTC on Tuesday, September 8.   
   During the ULS outage, it will not be possible to file any Amateur Radio   
   applications.   
      
   "[M]ost Commission resources normally accessible through the Commission's   
   website, including access to all electronic filing systems and electronic   
   dockets, will be inaccessible for the same period, with the exception of the   
   Network Outage Reporting System (NORS), the Consumer Help Center (CHC), and   
   the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS), which will remain   
   available," an FCC Public Notice said on August 20. "The Commission's website   
   will remain available, but with reduced content and limited search   
   capabilities." According to the Public Notice, the FCC will follow its normal   
   schedule of operation during the maintenance period, but voicemail will be   
   offline, and most Commission staffers will not have access to e-mail. Static   
   content webpages on the fcc.gov domain, such as the FCC consumer guides,   
   should remain available during the outage.   
      
   The FCC will extend filing deadlines for all regulatory and enforcement   
   filings that fall during the maintenance period. Filings due on September 2,   
   3, 4, or 8 now will be due on Wednesday, September 9. "Except for the due   
   dates specified herein, we are not automatically extending the deadlines for   
   any other comment or filing periods that will be running during this time   
   period, but requests for extension of time will be considered consistent with   
   the Commission's normal practice," the FCC Public Notice said. "To the extent   
   the due dates for filings to which reply or responsive pleadings are allowed   
   are affected by this Public Notice, the due dates for reply or responsive   
   pleadings shall be extended by the same number of days."   
      
   In a blog, "Modernizing the FCC's IT," FCC CIO David Bray said that with the   
   world and the technology we use are changing rapidly, "the information   
   technology used by the Federal Communications Commission must change as well."   
   Bray said the FCC has "made significant progress to upgrade and modernize our   
   infrastructure, and we continue to work on modernizing the FCC's legacy IT   
   systems with the resources we have available."   
      
   "We understand that this temporary downtime before and during the Labor Day   
   Weekend may be inconvenient for some FCC stakeholders," Bray added.   
      
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