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Our attention was caught by an item in this week's Washington Waves regarding processing times for mariner credentials and documents. The Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Coast Guard's National Maritime Center, which issues mariner credentials, include total processing time in assessing its own performance-including time lost to waiting for information from applicants, which it currently does not include. That recommendation grew out of a study included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023. The NMC does record total processing time-time from receipt of materials to issuance. But it assesses itself according to "net processing time," or the time it spends processing the materials. |