December 22, 2008
Annual Pass and National Water Safety Product Updates
The following should provide you with updates on the annual pass and water safety products availability. Even though we strive each year to get these items to you in a timely manner, it seems that we continue to experience delays. This year, the changes in ACE-IT processes had a definite effect. The good news is that we are making progress and products will be coming to you shortly.

ANNUAL PASSES: The passes are due to be delivered to the Publications Depot on 22 or 23 December. The Depot staff has been alerted to be ready to start distribution immediately upon receipt of the forms. HOWEVER, we are still waiting on ACE-IT to provide us a list of their newly designated Accountable Forms personnel in all districts as the old list is now obsolete. Without that information, we cannot get the passes to you. If you know who the designated person is in your district (please verify names before forwarding), please provide me with that information ASAP - that would enable me to at least get your forms sent in the event that the ACE-IT generated list doesn't arrive by that date. I have tried to get permission to send these directly to our NRM field offices, but have been advised that they MUST go through the district accountable forms person. The distribution list should contain: office symbols, phone numbers, POC names and full street address, this will prevent delays in the shipping, delivering and receiving process, or you can provide me with the POC names and phone numbers and we will get the address from them by contacting them by phone for their mailing address.

NEW HANGTAGS: We are still waiting on the expected delivery date of the new hangtags, which are being printed by a separate contractor. The previous version of hangtag becomes obsolete in the '09 season; however they can still be used while waiting on the new version hangtag if the line "Pass is valid for one year from above issue date" is doctored to remove the word "above". The new annual pass will have a '10' expiration year tag so that the hangtags actually depict expiration month and year, versus the issue date used in previous years. See sample "Sample Old Hangtag"; the new version of hangtag is illustrated in the " Revised Hangtag" file.

WATER SAFETY PRODUCTS: Some time ago, I asked the division reps on the national water safety team to let their field Corps customers know that water safety catalog products were also held up. In addition to the printing delays, we've temporarily lost our catalog ordering system while we're transitioning it to the Gateway. Products should become available, along with the catalog, sometime shortly after the New Year. We'll be sending out a notice once all that is in place.

I'm available to answer any questions you might have on these issues. Please don't hesitate to contact me.

Lynda Nutt

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