Actions Needed to Improve National Vessel Documentation Center Operations.

The article reports on the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) examination of the extent that the U.S. Coast Guard met its National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) workload demands and its effectiveness in processing vessel documentation for the fiscal years 2015 through 2019. Topics discussed include recreational documentation processing time, performance issues and actions to address them, and commercial and recreational user fee collections and costs.