[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: 15CFR971.424]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 971_DEEP SEABED MINING REGULATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL RECOVERY PERMITS

--Table of Contents

 

     Subpart D_Issuance/Transfer: Terms, Conditions and Restrictions

 

Sec. 971.424  Monitoring requirements.



    Each commercial recovery permit will require the permittee:

    (a) To allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers 

or employees as observers aboard vessels used by the permittee in 

commercial recovery activities to:

    (1) Monitor activities at times, and to the extent, the 

Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess the effectiveness 

of the TCRs of the permit; and

    (2) Report to the Administrator whenever those officers or employees 

have reason to believe there is a failure to comply with the TCRs;

    (b) To cooperate with Federal officers and employees in the 

performance of monitoring functions; and

    (c) To monitor the environmental effects of the commercial recovery 

activities in accordance with a monitoring plan approved and issued by 

NOAA as permit TCRs and to submit data and other information as 

necessary to permit evaluation of environmental effects. The 

environmental monitoring plan and reporting will respond to the concerns 

and procedures discussed in subpart F.