Automatic Identification System (AIS) Search and Rescue transponders (SARTs), and radar SARTs. NTIA therefore recommends that these four types of equipment be tested only monthly. We agree with NTIA that daily testing of the specified types of equipment could exhaust the battery, and we clarify that this equipment is not deemed to be ``radiotelephone equipment'' for purposes of new Section 80.1107. Thus, the new rule does not mandate daily testing of handheld sealed lifeboat radios, EPIRBs, AIS SARTs, or radar SARTs. Although NTIA recommends that such equipment be tested at monthly intervals, Section 80.409(b)(5)(ii) of the Rules currently specifies weekly testing of the equipment, and NTIA has not explained why a monthly testing interval would be preferable. We believe that, in