ECFS, EDOCS to Remain Operational During Agency Shutdown
The FCC electronic comment filing system, electronic document management system, Daily Digest, universal licensing system and network outage reporting system will remain up during the partial government and agency shutdown, said a public notice Wednesday. Shot clocks on deals will be paused, though some incentive auction activities will continue, the PN said. Comment deadlines also will be paused.
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There won't be support for such commission systems aside from activities involving spectrum auctions, the PN said. It said its filing window and mail operations will stay open only for spectrum auction activities.
Any submissions due during the shutdown instead will be due on the second day of normal operations.
In part, this shutdown plan is a major change from the last lengthy shuttering. ECFS went offline during the 2013 government shutdown.