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This Navigation Systems Division program encourages the checking of bridge over navigable water for lighting and navigational safery discrepancies by any Auxiliarist at any time. All members are encouraged to check bridges and report any observed discrepancies to the Coast Guard. While any member may report a discrepancy, in some districts, annual bridge checks, known as bridge surveys, require AV-Aid Verifier qualifications. Qualified Auxiliarists and their facilities are authorized assignment to duty to support and augment bridge surveys, investigate and provide information regarding waterways, safety and navigation situations pertaining to the bridge program, and provide direct assistance and support to the bridge program personnel. (Excerpted from Chapter 2, Section B4 of the Auxiliary Manual) A copy of the Bridge Program Memorandum of Understanding and Joint Action Plan of 29 February 1996 is available in Appendix A of the Auxiliary Manual. ONE - The emphasis of the Bridge Checking Program is on prevention, accuracy, credibility, and professionalism, and is directed toward building the competence level of the Auxiliary in the eyes of Coast Guard Bridge Branch. We are primarily looking for any problems with the bridge lights, fendering, clearance gauges, regulatory signs, projections hanging over or projecting into the navigable channel, or problems associated with the operation of the bridge that affects the mariner. TWO - Bridge Checking tools are available for download to your home PC. NS-BP01 D1NR BRIDGE ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM HAND OUT (Adobe) Use this handout to promote your Bridge Program to your members. NS-BP02 How to Conduct a Bridge Survey (Adobe) This documents explains the guidelines for surveying the safety equipment and lighting systems and explains how to logon to the D1NR Bridge Database and prepare Bridge Discrepancy and Annual Survey reports on-line from your home PC. NS-BAP03 BRIDGE SURVEY REPORT (EXCEL) Use this form to survey and report discrepancies observed on bridges. NS-BAP04 33 CFR-CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS BRIDGES (Adobe) This is a copy of the Federal Regulations concerning bridge safety equipment. Use a copy of this report as a checklist to insure that a complete survey is performed on the bridge. NS-BAP05 COAST GUARD BRIDGE LIGHTING MANUAL Use this Coast Guard manual to expand your knowledge of the various lighting configurations that are found on a bridge. NS-BP06 BRIDGE LIGHTING AND SAFETY EQUIPMENT TRAINING PRESENTATION (PowerPoint) This is a presentation that can be used for self training in conjunction with the NS-BP05-Coast Guard Bridge Lighting Manual and NS-BP04 33 Code of Federal Regulations Bridges or as a Bridge Workshop training presentation. NS-BP07 BRIDGE SURVEY REPORT SAMPLE. (Adobe) This is an example of a typical report of a bridge discrepancy.
NS-BP08 D1NR ON-LINE BRIDGE DISCREPANCY REPORTING This is an enhancement to the Auxiliary Bridge discrepancy reporting using a front end E-Directory security logon for forwarding reports to the Bridge Branch. All reporting is performed on-line with a built-in report quality screening process, a feedback system to the reporter, receipt acknowledgements and professional on-line reports to the Coast Guard. By-products are on-line report history, on-line Bridge Program management and on-line discrepancy status on each bridge within the AOR. THREE - FIRST NORTHERN BRIDGE DATABASE Click here to access the First Northern Bridge Database. FOUR - If the Bridge Program interests you, talk to your Aid to Navigation Staff Officers. Every member of each Flotilla and Division is encouraged to check each bridge that they pass while underway. There now is provision to take credit for your underway time and for all of your NS bridge activity in AUXDATA, whether or not you find a discrepancy. You can start contributing quality discrepancy reports to the Coast Guard in the time that it takes you to familiarize yourself with this programs forms, guidelines and procedures. All of this information is on www.uscgaan.com. Checking Bridges is a year-round Auxiliary program. You dont always need a boat to participate in this program. New members are encouraged to join their local Auxiliary Aid to Navigation Teams. All we want is your skill, knowledge, and your desire to make a contribution to a worthy endeavor. If every OPFAC included Bridge checking tasks on each of the scheduled patrols this year, we would make a large difference to the efficiency of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Bridge Administration Program. The Auxiliary support is mostly needed on the backwater channels and bays. ONLINE 7030 - Click here to fill out your mission hour form to receive credit for your ATON work in AUXData use mission category 32 and submit to your FSO-IS
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