Responding to the anthrax outbreak in the Senate, the Federal Communications
Commission is refusing to accept hand-delivered and messenger-delivered filings
at its headquarters in southwest Washington, D.C.
Effective Thursday, the agency is mandating that those filings be sent to an
FCC office in Capitol Heights, Md. The commission said it will divert to that
office on its own all normal U.S. Mail and overnight parcels addressed to FCC
headquarters.
'The [FCC] finds it necessary at this time to make these changes to its
procedures to protect the health and safety of its employees and, therefore,
finds good cause to make them effective as expeditiously as possible,' the
agency said in a public notice released late Wednesday
afternoon.
