Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act

Summary

Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act - Establishes an all hazards alert system that will: (1) enable any appropriate federal department or agency or state or local governmental entity to alert the public to any imminent threat from natural phenomena, accidents, natural disasters, terrorist activity, and other emergency situations that present a significant risk of injury or death to the public; (2) be coordinated with and supplement existing federal, state, and local emergency warning and alert systems; (3) be flexible enough in its application to permit narrowly targeted alerts in circumstances in which only a small geographic area is exposed or potentially exposed to the threat; and (4) transmit alerts in response to natural hazards, hazardous materials incidents, and terrorist attacks across the greatest possible variety of media, including digital and analog broadcast, cable, and satellite television and radio, wireless telecommunications, and hardwire telecommunications, to reach the largest portion of the affected population. Establishes the National Program Office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct the day-to-day operation and management of the system. Establishes the Working Group on the National Alert System to transmit to the director of the National Program Office: (1) a description of the emergency alert service to be provided by the System; (2) guidelines for the technical capabilities of the System; (3) guidelines for technical capability that provides for the priority transmission of System alerts; (4) guidelines for the other capabilities of the System; and (5) standards to which the equipment and technologies in the System must conform. Directs the Office to establish a program of grants to provide for installation of technologies in remote communities effectively unserved by broadcast and wireless technologies to enable community residents to receive System alerts. Specifies requirements for implementation and use of the System.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 8 December 2005

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• Reported to Senate (PDF)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 8 December 2005

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 8 December 2005

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 September 2005

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 September 2005

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• Introduced in Senate

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