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TSP Eligibility
There are four broad categories that
serve as guidelines for determining whether a circuit or telecommunications
service is eligible for priority provisioning or restoration. TSP service user organizations may
be in the Federal, State, local, or tribal government, critical
infrastructure sectors in industry, non-profit organizations that
perform critical National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP)
functions, or foreign governments. Typical TSP service users are
responsible for the command and control functions critical to management
of and response to NS/EP situations, particularly
during the first 24 to 72 hours following an event.
ESSENTIAL SERVICE CRITERIA for Categories A thru D
and
EMERGENCY SERVICE CRITERIA for Category E
A.
National Security Leadership (Restoration/Provisioning
Levels 1-5) |
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This category is strictly limited
to only those telecommunication services essential to national
survival if nuclear attack threatens or occurs, and critical
orderwire and control services necessary to ensure the rapid
and efficient provisioning or restoration of other NS/EP telecommunication
services. Services in this category are those for which a
service interruption of even a few minutes would have serious
adverse impact on the supported NS/EP function. These user
functions may include the following: (more
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- Critical orderwire or control service supporting
other NS/EP functions
- Presidential support critical to continuity
of Government and national security leadership
- National Command Authority support for
military command and control critical to national survival
- Intelligence critical to warning of potentially
catastrophic attack
- Support for the conduct of diplomatic negotiations
critical to arresting or limiting hostilities
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B.
National Security Posture &
U.S. Population Attack
Warning (Levels 2-5) |
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This category covers those minimum
additional telecommunication services essential to maintaining
an optimum defense, diplomatic, or continuity-of-government
posture before, during, and after crisis situations. Such
situations may range from national emergencies to international
crises, including nuclear attack. Services in this category
are those for which a service interruption ranging from a
few minutes to one day would have serious adverse impact on
the supported NS/EP function. These user functions may include
the following: (more
details)
- Threat assessment and attack warning
- Conduct of diplomacy
- Collection, processing, and dissemination
of intelligence
- Command and control of military forces
- Military mobilization
- Continuity of Federal Government before,
during, and after crisis situations
- Continuity of state and local government
functions supporting the Federal Government during and
after national emergencies
- Recovery of critical national functions
after crisis situations
- National space operations
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C.
Public Health, Safety, &
Maintenance of Law &
Order (Levels 3-5) |
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This category covers the minimum
number of telecommunication services necessary for giving
civil alert to the U.S. population and maintaining law and
order and the health and safety of the U.S. population in
times of any national, regional, or serious local emergency.
These services are those for which a service interruption
ranging from a few minutes to one day would have serious adverse
impact on the supported NS/EP functions. These user functions
may include the following: (more
details)
- Population warning (other than attack warning)
- Law enforcement
- Continuity of critical state and local
government functions (other than support of the Federal
Government during and after national emergencies)
- Hospitals and distribution of medical supplies
- Critical logistic functions and public
utility services
- Civil air traffic control
- Military assistance to civil authorities
- Defense and protection of critical industrial
facilities
- Critical weather services
- Transportation to accomplish foregoing
NS/EP functions
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D.
Public Welfare &
Maintenance of the
National Economic Posture
(Levels 4-5) |
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This category covers the minimum
number of telecommunication services necessary for maintaining
the public welfare and national economic posture during any
national or regional emergency. These services are those for
which a service interruption ranging from a few minutes to
one day would have serious adverse impact on the supported
NS/EP function. These user functions may include the following:
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details)
- Distribution of food and other essential
supplies
- Maintenance of national monetary, credit,
and financial systems
- Maintenance of price, wage, rent, and salary
stabilization,and consumer rationing programs
- Control of production and distribution
of strategic materials and energy supplies
- Prevention and control of environmental
hazards or damage
- Transportation to accomplish the foregoing
NS/EP functions
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E.
Emergency Criteria
(EMERGENCY PROVISIONING
ONLY - Level E)
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This category is limited to those
services so critical to the protection of life and property
or to NS/EP that that they must be provisioned immediately,
without regard to cost to the user. These services are those
for which any delay immediately has a serious adverse impact
on the supported NS/EP function.
This category covers those
minimum additional telecommunication services essential to
maintaining an optimum defense, diplomatic, or continuity-of-government
posture before, during, and after crisis situations. Such
situations may range from national emergencies to international
crises, including nuclear attack. Services in this category
are those for which a service interruption ranging from a
few minutes to one day would have serious adverse impact on
the supported NS/EP function. (more
details)
- Federal Government activity responding to a Presidentially declared disaster or emergency as defined in the
Disaster Relief Act (42 U.S.C. Section 5122)
- State or local government activity responding to a Presidentially declared disaster or emergency
- Response to a state of crises declared by the National Command Authorities (e.g., exercise of
Presidential War Emergency Powers under Section 706 of the Communications Act, supra)
- Efforts to protect endangered U.S. personnel or property
- Response to an enemy or terrorist action, civil disturbance, natural disaster, or any unpredictable occurrence
that has damaged facilities whose uninterrupted operations are critical to NS/EP or the management of other
ongoing crises.
- Certification by the head or director of a Federal agency, commander of a unified/specified command, chief of
a military service, or commander of a major military command, that the telecommunications service is so
critical to the protection of life and property or to NS/EP, that is must be provided immediately
- A request from an official authorized pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (50 U.S.C.
Section 1801 et. seq. and 18 U.S.C. Sections 2511, 2518, 2519).
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