Notification of Common Carriers of Service Disruptions

The Commission's regulations require carriers to notify Commission headquarters when certain service outages occur, but permit carriers to notify the Commission's facility at Grand Island, Nebraska on a ``secondary basis.'' The Commission has closed the Nebraska facility and is designating as the secondary facility ``the FCC's Columbia Operations Center in Columbia, Maryland, or such other facility which the Commission may designate by regulation or (in the case of emergency) by public announcement.'' The order also clarifies that notification of the secondary facility is appropriate only when there is a telephone outage or similar emergency in Washington, DC.