AES Broadcast 02/08/2007 Broadcast # 2007007
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Extended AES Maintenance Outage
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The AES Production Region will undergo a 42-hour outage beginning at
11:00 PM EST Friday, February 16, 2007. The region will be restored
by 5:00 PM EST Sunday, February 18, 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. We strongly encourage you to file your shipments prior to
this extended outage when possible.
The AES Development Team will be conducting maintenance to update the
carrier codes for all methods of transportation.
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
Production Region 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
The AES Education (Testing) Region will not be affected during this
outage.
For further information or questions, contact the U.S. Census Bureau's
AES Branch at 1-800-549-0595, menu option 1 or at askaes@census.gov.
Following the extended outage, on Monday, February 19th (President's
Day Holiday), the AES Branch will be operating with limited staff and
hours from 8:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST to address questions. Please
refer to the contact information mentioned above.
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