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    Ms. Magalie Roman Salas
    Office of the Commission Secretary 
    Federal Communications Commission
    The Portals, 445 12th Street, S.W.
    Room TW-A325
    Washington, D.C. 20554
    
    Re: CC Docket No.92- 105; (DA 99-1 170); Ex parte Comments of the Texas Advisory
        Commission on State Emergency Communications
    
    Dear Ms. Salas:
    
    Attached are an original and ten copies of Ex parse Comments of the Texas Advisory
    Commission on State Emergency Communications. Please file and distribute the original and
    nine copies in accordance with the appropriate procedures. Please also file stamp the extra copy
    and return it to me in the enclosed self-addressed stamped envelope. (We are also making this
    filing electronically.)
    
    Your assistance in this matter is much appreciated.
    
    Very truly yours,
    

    Richard A. Muscat
    
    Enclosure
    
    cc: Anna M. Gomez
        Helene Schrier Nankin
        David Ward
    
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    Summary of Comments as a Starting Point for Discussion of Issues at the 711 Forum
    
    Toni Dunne, on behalf of the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications,' would


    





    like to address or raise for discussion at the September 8, 1999 forum on 711 the following
    
    issues:
    
    In an emergency, every second counts, therefore how calls are routed, and processed
    becomes paramount to the safety of the caller.
    If a citizen dials TRS to handle an emergency related call, it should be as transparent and
    effective as possible as when the citizen dials 9-1-1 direct.
    Technology provides methods to route calls to the appropriate public safety agency without
    the caller having to look up the ten-digit phone number and provide to the CA.
    Should there be minimum standards to route emergency related 7-1-1 calls? (If so, what
    should be included in those minimum standards?)
    Does confusion exist among the TTY using community on the difference between
    7-1-I and 9-1-1 services? (If so, why is this important to address the issue and what can be
    done to reduce problems?)
    Operationally, should TRS be allowed to pass the caller's ANI information to the emergency
    service provider, even where the TRS user disconnects before emergency personnel are
    connected (i.e., for the functional equivalent for 911 "call-backs")? (If so, what is necessary
    for TRS to be able to pass the caller's ANI information?)
    
    1 Ms. Dunne is also the Training and Access Program Manager for the Texas Commission on
    State Emergency Communications (CSEC) and chair of the National Emergency Number
    Association (NENA) Accessibility Issues Committee, and the Association of Public Safety
    Communication Officials, Int'l (APCO) ADA Committee.
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    TONI D. DUNNE
    
           Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications
                       333 Guadalupe St., Suite 2-212
                            Austin, Texas 78701
                              512-305-6918 v/sty
                               512-305-6937 fax
                     toni.dunne@acsec.state.tx.us
    
    Toni Dunne serves as Training and Access Program Manager for the Texas Advisory
    Commission on State Emergency Communications. She is responsible for the
    statewide program that assists 9-1-1 centers in providing accessibility for Deaf, Hard of
    Hearing and Speech Impaired citizens through equipment placement and training. With
    over 20 years of experience working with the Deaf community and over 9 years with 9-
    1-1, she participates in a variety of organizations and committees at international,
    national, state and local levels.
    
    She has been the Accessibility Issues Committee Chair for the National Emergency
    Number Association for the past 8 years and is the Texas Chapter Past President. Toni
    is also Chair of the APCO International ADA Committee and president-elect for the
    APCO Texas Chapter. Other involvement's include Telecommunications for the Deaf
    Inc. (TDI) (Board Member); the National Association of the Deaf (9-1-1 Committee); the
    Texas Association of the Deaf (9-1-1 Committee Co-Chair); and the Texas Commission
    on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education (Emergency Communications
    Certification Advisory Council). She has also been an active participant of the CTIA TTY
    Forum Steering Committee since it's inception and is a strong advocate for accessibility
    to current and future technologies.
    
    Toni holds an instructor's license from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
    Officer Standards and Education, an instructor's certificate from the Association of
    Public Safety Communication Officials and Texas certification for Sign Language and
    Oral Interpreting.
    
    She is the recipient of several national awards, to include the National Emergency
    Number Association President's Award, and the Robert H. Weitbrecht
    Telecommunications Access Award. Most recently she was recognized as one of 30
    outstanding individuals in TDI's (Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.) history that
    have produced the greatest impact on telecommunications accessibility for the nation's
    Deaf and Hard of Hearing citizens from 1968 to 1998.
    


    





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