* In April, EAS will be part of the Earthquake preparedness drill.  Since that will occur in the daytime, March has been switched to a nighttime/ early morning test.  The preparedness drill will occur between 9:45 and 10:00 AM.

**In May, the RMT will include Pierce County's annual Lahar test.

***The September test will run as part of the NWS tsunami communications drill for Alaska and the West Coast.  It is also "Weather Radio Awareness Month," so NWS will originate the monthly RMT.

****The October test coincides with a FEMA-required activation and survey of tone-alert radios in Franklin and Benton Counties.
 
Exact times are shown.  This will help traffic, programming, and operations departments everywhere prepare for the incoming test, and balances out the desires of those groups that asked for top-of-the-hour tests and those that asked for bottom-of-the-hour tests.

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