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AES Broadcast  02/02/2007          Broadcast  #  2007005

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 Emergency AES Outage - Production Region

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 The AES Production Region will undergo an emergency outage for 
               4 hours beginning at 6:00 PM EST Friday, February 2, 2007. 
               The region will be restored by 10:00 PM EST Friday, February 2, 2007. 
               During this outage, incoming AES shipments will be stored in a queue 
               and once the region is restored processing will continue and messages 
               will be returned to the filers.

 The AES Development Team will be conducting an emergency fix related 
               to Fatal AES Response Code 641: Quantity 1 Must Be Greater Than Zero 
               for shipments where the Unit of Measure is X (No Unit of Measure 
               Required).  This message is being generated in error. 
   
               AES Filers may submit Non-Licensed shipments under the AES Downtime 
               Policy during this outage.  Licensed shipments must be held until the 
               system is restored and an AES ITN is received.  Once the AES is 
               restored all AES transactions for shipments that moved under the 
               AES Downtime Policy must be filed along with any new AES transactions.

 If you utilize the AES Downtime Policy for export, please contact the 
               port where you will export from.

 Please see the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) web site for 
               further information on the AES Downtime Policy:

 http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/export/aes/tech_docs/aestir/june04_intro/june04_downtime_guide.ctt/june04_downtime_guide.doc

 For further information or questions, contact the U.S. Census Bureau's 
               AES Branch at 1-800-549-0595, menu option 1 beginning, Monday, 
               February 5, 2007 or at askaes@census.gov. 

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