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Purpose of This Notice.

This notice clarifies the current Flight Standards Service (AFS) Compliance Policy contained in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS), Volume 14, Compliance and Enforcement. This notice also adds appendices which provide guidance on how to apply Compliance Philosophy to enforcement cases which are downgraded to Compliance Actions (CA) (Appendix E), introduce the AFS Compliance Philosophy (CP) Focus Team (Appendix F), and provide a guide showing how Order 8900.1, Volume 14, was revised and reorganized on October 1, 2015 (Appendix G).