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Navigation panies) that need or choose to use them to meet US Coast

Guard navigation carriage requirements.”

Another suggestion was retaining the option to purchase traditional paper charts “until the Custom Chart applica- tion is fully tested, functional and operational.”

A third major concern is more complicated. AWO notes that some of its members would prefer ENCs. However,

AWO writes, “current Coast Guard policy regarding chart carriage requirements effectively prevents them from do- ing so. We would like to bring these issues to your atten- tion and ask for NOAA’s support to resolve them.”

At issue is text within the CG’s NVIC 01-16 directing that, “If any part of the vessel’s intended voyage is sea- ward of the territorial sea baseline (as de? ned by 33 CFR 2.20), then the display system must be tested against and

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