50 CFR 600.1504 - Latency requirement.

Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries last revised: Nov 18, 2024

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§ 600.1504 - Latency requirement.

(a) Ninety percent of all pre-programmed or requested Global Positioning System position reports during each 24-hour period must reach NMFS within 15 minutes or less of being sent from the VMS unit, for 10 out of 11 consecutive days (24-hour time periods).

(b) NMFS will continually examine latency by region and by type-approval holder.

(c) Exact dates for calculation of latency will be chosen by NMFS. Days in which isolated and documented system outages occur will not be used by NMFS to calculate a type-approval holder's latency.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 561 and 16 U.S.C. 1801

source: 61 FR 32540, June 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

cite as: 50 CFR 600.1504