3.7 Supervisors and surveyors
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3.7 Supervisors and surveyors

  3.7.1 Supervisors and surveyors include the ownerś supervisors and flag State surveyors. This group performs compliance verification in the construction phase and compliance review through the operational life of an alternative and/or equivalency.

  3.7.2 Supervisors and surveyors will require an introduction to alternative and/or equivalent design approaches. An understanding should be developed that compliance is generally to be viewed as compliance with the intent of regulations, and not necessarily with prescriptive content.

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