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USCG requires a backup. The cost it wants to work with the CG to ? nd could double if a duplicate IEC-stan- “practical options” and it asks NOAA’s dard system is required, which, seems “assistance to resolve these issues.” likely, if there are no paper charts that In an update, Caitlyn Stewart, comply with Coast Guard regs. AWO’s VP, Regulatory Affairs, said

In contrast, vessels staying inside that NOAA and USCG staff have the sea baseline can use any hardware emphasized to AWO that the two to display ENCs, e.g., a laptop issued agencies are coordinating their ef- by the IT team purchased on Amazon forts regarding e-charts. With Lake or at Staples. Tahoe, for example, Stewart said the

AWO writes that, “For members Coast Guard is reportedly working on operating domestically in the coastal “bridging guidance” for Lake Tahoe sector, ECDIS is the only ENC dis- users subject to carriage requirements.

play system the Coast Guard will ac- Additionally, the USCG advised cept for vessels that transit outside AWO that the agency is working on the territorial sea baseline. Between new rules regarding ENCs and coastal equipment, installation and subscrip- operations.

tion costs, and the costs of specialized Hopefully, these important discus- crew training, an ECDIS can cost up sions become public sooner, not later. to tens of thousands of dollars.” Maybe NOAA and the Coast Guard

Hardly an incentive to jump onto can work separately, but mariners can’t.

NOAA’s sunsetting. AWO writes that Silos bad. Teamwork good.