Sec. 97.519  Coordinating examination sessions.

    (a) A VEC must coordinate the efforts of VEs in preparing and 
administering examinations.
    (b) At the completion of each examination session, the coordinating 
VEC must collect the FCC Form 610 documents and test results from the 
administering VEs. Within 10 days of collecting the FCC Form 610 
documents, the coordinating VEC must:
    (1) Screen each FCC Form 610 document;
    (2) Resolve all discrepancies appearing on the FCC Form 610 
documents and verify that the VEs' certifications are properly 
completed; and
    (3) For qualified examinees, forward electronically the data 
contained on the FCC Form 610 documents, or forward the FCC Form 610 
documents to: FCC, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325-7245. When 
the data is forwarded electronically, the coordinating VEC must retain 
the FCC Form 610 documents for at least 15 months and make them 
available to the FCC upon request.
    (c) Each VEC must make any examination records available to the FCC, 
upon request
    (d) The FCC may:
    (1) Administer any examination element itself;
    (2) Readminister any examination element previously administered by 
VEs, either itself or under the supervision of a VEC or VEs designated 
by the FCC; or
    (3) Cancel the operator/primary station license of any licensee who 
fails to appear for readministration of an examination when directed by 
the FCC, or who does not successfully complete any required element that 
is readministered. In an instancce of such cancellation, the person will 
be granted an operator/primary station license consistent with completed 
examination elements that have not been invalidated by not appearing 
for, or by failing, the examination upon readministration.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at  59 FR 54835 , Nov. 2, 1994;  62 FR 17567 , Apr. 10, 1997]