# The Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2024-09-06 · Effective 2025-09-08 · 89 FR 72724
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-19530
- **Category:** broadcasting
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 72724
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 11
- **Publication date:** 2024-09-06
- **Effective date:** 2025-09-08
- **FCC docket:** PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) amends its regulations governing the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to add a new event code, MEP, to allow alert originators to issue an alert to the public about missing and endangered persons (MEP) whose circumstances do not meet the criteria of "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response" (AMBER) alerts.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/06/2024-19530/the-emergency-alert-system-and-wireless-emergency-alerts)
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