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Meeting Agenda
Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC)

U.S. Department of Commerce
Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4830
1401 Constitution Ave., NW (Entrance on 14^th St.)
Washington, DC  20230

a. Resolution to Adopt FirstNet Bylaws
b. Resolution on State and Local Consultation Process
c. Resolution on Grant Program Consultation Process

The FirstNet Board of Directors will meet 9:00 am – 12:30 pm September 25 at the Department of Commerce. A link to the webcast will be available on the NTIA homepage before the meeting starts. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance.

At the August 29, 2012 meeting, stakeholders voiced support for holding informational briefings regarding mobile application technology and existing work concerning mobile app privacy. In order to facilitate those briefings, NTIA has canceled the privacy multistakeholder meeting previously scheduled for September 19, 2012.  Stakeholders have organized four briefings; the briefings are scheduled for September 13, 2012, September 14, 2012, September 19, 2012, and September 28, 2012.

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as an independent authority within NTIA. The Act directs FirstNet to establish a single nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network. The FirstNet Board is responsible for making strategic decisions regarding FirstNet’s operations. The FirstNet Board will hold its first public meeting on September 25, 2012.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Lawrence E. Strickling met on August 29, 2012, to discuss their agencies’ complementary roles with respect to commercial and Federal use of spectrum. The meeting, covering both domestic and international spectrum planning issues of joint interest, is in line with Federal law which directs the agency heads to meet biannually to conduct joint spectrum planning.

Implementing Public Safety Broadband Provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, PS Docket No. 12-94

NTIA requests the FCC to reconsider an aspect of the Order in the above-referenced docket.