Contact persons distributed across the country are responsible for regional sections of the Locator. These contacts update an Oracle database when they receive change requests. The Web version is downloaded from the database nightly .
Employees are responsible for notifying the appropriate contact person when data changes.
This notification can be sent via U.S. Mail, E-mail, Web, but NOT over the phone. A link on the change form page will lead you to your contact person's address. Changes may take as much as a week to appear in the Web Locator. For now, NOAA e-mail addresses can be found at a website with links to the NOAA X.500 directory.