---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 946.6"
title: "15"
number: "946.6"
heading: "Change in operations—transferring responsibility and moving field offices."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/946.6"
---

# §946.6. Change in operations—transferring responsibility and moving field offices.

- (a) After providing any notification required by [§ 946.3(b)](/cfr/15/946.3.md?p=b), NWS may change operations at a field office to implement the Strategic Plan, including:
  - (1) Transferring official responsibility for taking radar observations to a NEXRAD Weather Service Forecast Office (NWSFO) or a NEXRAD Weather Service Office (NWSO) that is being established as a future Weather Forecast Office following commissioning of the NEXRAD at the new office;
  - (2) Transferring official responsibility for taking observations from a Category 1 radar to a backup radar or radars prior to constructing and/or operating a replacement NEXRAD. Before transferring responsibility, the Responsible Meteorologist shall document that technical coordination with users has been completed and that the transition to the replacement NEXRAD can be completed expeditiously;
  - (3) Transferring its service responsibility for issuing watches, warnings, forecasts and other products to a NWSFO or NWSO;
  - (4) Significantly reducing its staffing level by transferring or reassigning personnel to support the service responsibilities transferred under [paragraph (a)(3)](#a-3) of this section provided that the field office continues to assign the appropriate number of positions established by the NWS Operations Manual to carry out its observation responsibilities; and
  - (5) Moving an entire field office to a location within the local commuting and service area of that office.
- (b) A field office may not significantly reduce its staffing level assigned to support any observation responsibility, including those responsibilities transferred under [paragraph (a)(2)](#a-2) of this section and those retained under [paragraph (a)(4)](#a-4) of this section, until the Secretary has certified that the automation and/or consolidation will not degrade service in accordance with [§ 946.7](/cfr/15/946.7.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Title VII of Pub. L. 102-567, 106 Stat. 4303 15 U.S.C. 313 note

### Source

Source: 58 FR 64091, Dec. 3, 1993, unless otherwise noted.