Manual Change Procedures.

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1-6. Manual Change Procedures.

a. General. JOAP manual users desiring technical and or procedural changes shall provide feedback via

their appropriate oil analysis Program Manager to ensure coordinated directive updating. The Program Manager

will screen proposed changes for validity and forward recommended changes to the JOAP-TSC for technical

review and coordination with all service Program Managers and engine/equipment managers, as applicable.

Procedural and technical changes are not authorized for program application until formally released.

b. JOAP Manual Update Methods. The Navy is the lead service for publication of this manual; therefore,

the following Navy publication change procedures apply:

(1) Revision. A revision is a complete document reissue with all change information incorporated.

With the current Internet hosting of the JOAP manuals, the goal is to use complete revisions to avoid the

workload of inserting page changes.

(2) Routine changes. Technical manual changes are the official corrected pages to a portion of an

existing document. They consist of replacement change pages for that area of the manual affected by the

change action.

(3) Rapid action changes. Rapid action changes are issued in order to provide the operating forces

and maintenance personnel with accurate and timely information necessary for mission performance.

(a) Rapid action changes shall be prepared and issued when any of the following conditions

exist:

1. Hazards to safety of personnel.

2. Impairment of safety of flight.

3. Aircraft grounding.

4. Mission capabilities adversely affected.

5. Potential equipment damage.

(b) Rapid action changes may be issued as Interim Rapid Action Changes (IRAC) or as formal

Rapid Action Changes (RAC). Interim Rapid Action Changes are issued as Naval messages to expedite the

release of urgent and essential operational and maintenance change information. Army and Air Force Program

Management offices are responsible for retransmitted of IRAC's to appropriate service addresses.

and format of the technical manual being changed and as a replacement for an IRAC. A Formal RAC or routine

change containing IRAC change material must be issued within one year of the release of an IRAC.

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