[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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.



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