Participants prioritize the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)-formatted version of an EAS message when it receives both a legacy version and a CAP-formatted version of the same alert.2 EAS Participants must comply with this requirement by December 12, 2023.3 REC and NAB explain that additional time is necessary to account for an unexpected delay in the delivery of a firmware update by an EAS equipment vendor. For the reasons discussed below, the Bureau grants the request to extend the compliance deadline by 90 days, i.e., until March 11, 2024, but only for those EAS Participants that are customers of this equipment vendor. More Here