Cable operators have until June 30 to install broadband connections at cable system headends that are capable of receiving Emergency Alert System messages, according to an Federal Communications Commission order.

The American Cable Association had petitioned the FCC to extend the June 30 deadline for small cable operators with systems counting fewer than 501 subscribers. But ACA withdrew the petition earlier this month, and on Thursday, the commission agreed to dismiss the petition.

In January, the FCC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered that cable providers install equipment that allowed for the delivery of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages to to cable headends by June 30. When ACA submitted a petition for reconsideration to the FCC in April, it asked the commission to allow small cable operators to submit waivers that would last at least one year.

ACA withdrew the petition June 11, noting that the comment period that the FCC had implemented for its waiver request would extend beyond the June 30 deadline, which would make its petition "moot."

"We see no reason to deny ACA's request to withdraw its reconsideration petition," the FCC wrote in an order issued Thursday.