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Groups advocating for the deaf and hard of hearing population requested an extension of time to comment on petitions for exemption from closed captioning rules. The National Association of the Deaf, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and…

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other groups in a joint filing (http://xrl.us/bn7g79) urged the FCC to extend the comment deadline in docket 06-181 by 14 days to Jan. 14. They requested the extension “to accommodate the fact that counsel’s offices at the Institute for Public Representation [Georgetown University] will be closed from Dec. 24 ... until Jan. 1, 2013,” it said. The groups also are preparing reply comments in docket 12-107, regarding Accessing Emergency Information, they said. An extension will allow them “to comprehensively offer the perspective of the deaf and hard of hearing community on the important issues raised by that proceeding” and the petitions in docket 06-181, it said.