March 3 was a busy day for public safety on the FCC Daily Digest.  The following items are of interest on today’s March, 3, 2015 FCC Daily Digest.

1)  FCC Places NPSTC/NRPC Recommendations re 700 Deployable Channels on Public Notice, comments are due April 2 and Replies are due April 17.   https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-278A1.pdf

2) FCC responded to a Petition for Clarification by the NRPC, agreeing with NRPC that Section 90.537(a) narrowband trunking requirements of the Commission’s rules does not apply to the air-ground channels.  The FCC indicated that nothing in its decision to designate channels for air to ground operations prevents the channels to be used in conventional manner rather than trunked.  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-279A1.pdf

3) FCC issued a Public Notice indicating Region 30 NY-Albany Regional Planning Committees will hold a meeting re 800 MHz and 700 MHz on March 11.  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-277A1.pdf

4) FCC issued a Public Notice indicating Region 6 Northern California Regional Planning Committees will hold a meeting re 800 MHz and 700 MHz on March 11.  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-280A1.pdf

5) FCC issued a Public Notice noting the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) announces that it is updating the Commission’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Text-to-911 Readiness and Certification Registry (Text-to-911 Registry) listing PSAPs that are ready to receive text-to-911 messages.  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-276A1.pdf