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• holding that discretionary act prong is not satisfied when mandatory provisions of Department of Commerce's Hydrographic Manual and Cook Inlet Survey Project Instructions at issue
• holding that “scientific hydro-graphic judgment” and “purely scientific considerations” do not involve policy considerations and are not protected by the discretionary function exception
• holding that the “general grant of discretion was superseded by mandatory requirements” and thus “the discretionary exception function [sic] does not apply”
• holding that discretionary act prong is not satisfied when mandatory provisions of Department of Com merce’s Hydrographic Manual and Cook Inlet Survey Project Instructions at issue
• holding that “scientific hydrographic judgment” and “purely scientific considerations” do not involve policy considerations and are not protected by the discretionary function exception
• holding that issues of proximate cause went to negligence and were therefore irrelevant to the discretionary function exception

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