[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: 15CFR996.2]



[Page 410-411]

 

                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 996_QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR NOAA 

HYDROGRAPHIC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 996.2  Definitions.



    Agency means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    Applicant means a non-Federal entity that is submitting a 

hydrographic product to the Quality Assurance Program for certification.

    Certification means a determination made by NOAA that a hydrographic 

product submitted by a non-Federal entity has met the requirements 

established by NOAA for a particular hydrographic product or class.

    Department means the Department of Commerce.

    Hydrographic data means information acquired through hydrographic or 

bathymetric surveying, photogrammetry, geodetic, geospatial, or 

geomagnetic measurements, tide and current observations, or other 

methods, that is used in providing hydrographic services.

    Hydrographic product means any publicly or commercially available 

product produced by a non-Federal entity that includes or displays 

hydrographic data.

    Hydrographic product class means a group of hydrographic products 

with similar traits, attributes, purposes, or users.

    Hydrographic services means

    (1) The management, maintenance, interpretation, certification, and 

dissemination of bathymetric, hydrographic, geodetic, geospatial, 

geomagnetic, and tide and current information, including the production 

of nautical charts, nautical information



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databases, and other products derived from hydrographic data;

    (2) The development of nautical information systems; and

    (3) Related activities.

    Quality Assurance Program means a set of procedures by which 

hydrographic products are proposed for certification; by which standards 

and compliance tests are developed, and, if suitable, are adopted by 

NOAA for those products; and by which certification of individual 

products may be awarded or denied.

    Quality Assurance Program implementation means the execution of the 

Quality Assurance Program procedures for specific hydrographic products.

    Sponsor means a non-Federal entity that is submitting a hydrographic 

product to the Quality Assurance Program for the development of 

standards and compliance tests.