[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR904.302]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 904--CIVIL PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart D--Permit Sanctions and Denials
 
Sec. 904.302  Notice of permit sanction (NOPS).

    (a) A NOPS will be served personally or by registered or certified 
mail, return receipt requested, on the permit holder. When a foreign 
fishing vessel is involved, service will be made on the agent authorized 
to receive and respond to any legal process for vessels of that country.
    (b) The NOPS will set forth the sanction to be imposed, the bases 
for the sanction, and any opportunity for a hearing. It will state the 
effective date of the sanction, which will ordinarily not be earlier 
than 30 calendar days after the date of receipt of the NOPS (see 
Sec. 904.322).
    (c) Upon demand by an authorized enforcement officer, a permit 
holder must surrender a permit against which a sanction has taken 
effect. The effectiveness of the sanction, however, does not depend on 
surrender of the permit.