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PURPOSE. This order provides all offices of the Aircraft Certification Service a streamlined type certification (TC) conformity inspection notification process. It authorizes a procedure for TC conformity inspection notifications between the applicant's Designated Engineering Representative (DER) and its designated inspection representative when the inspections are to take place in the United States. In this order, a designated inspection representative means a Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative (DMIR), Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR), or an Organizational Designated Airworthiness Representative (ODAR), in the applicant's geographic area.