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4 Guidelines for Assessing Possible Degradation of Service in Specific Areas
Pages 47-50

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... CONSIDERATION OF PUBLIC CONCERNS Concern about possible degradation of services in the course of the NWS modernization program has generated considerable public comment. In accordance with a Federal Register announcement of November 4, 1994, the NWS received comments from approximately 67,000 people in the form of letters, postcards, collections of information, and signatures on resolutions and petitions.
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... The composite system elements include, but are not limited to, those listed below. characteristics of local weather phenomena; radar coverage and terrain features; data quality and availability; · local spotter network and the user community; adequacy of communications within the composite system and with users; education and training for the forecasters and user community; and · other composite system elements, such as ASOS, satellite data, soundings, prior RADAP IT and/or ICRAD capability, AWIPS, centralized support products and services, and similar elements.
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... 59, No. 41, March 2, 1994, "Rules and Regulations." These criteria included formal actions that certify and commission the supporting NEXRAD, provide adequate notification to users, provide user confirmation of associated services, and determine that the existing radar is no longer needed for service coverage of that area.
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