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Read the following passage carefully:
Under the 2026 Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Extraction Protocol, commercial mining consortia operating in international waters are granted territorial exploration concessions only if they deploy autonomous benthic monitoring rovers capable of continuous environmental telemetry. If a consortium's benthic rovers report a benthic turbidity threshold breach exceeding 45 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) sustained over a 72-hour window, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) automatically suspends the consortium's active extraction permit. However, the protocol stipulates that permission to resume operations requires both a verified telemetry report confirming NTU levels below 20 for 48 consecutive hours and unanimous approval from the ISA Scientific Oversight Committee. Furthermore, consortia operating without real-time telemetry streaming forfeit their eligibility for sovereign risk insurance subsidies, regardless of whether any environmental turbidity threshold was actually breached. While environmental non-governmental organizations advocate for a complete moratorium, the protocol allows existing concessions to remain valid unless a 72-hour turbidity breach is recorded or telemetry feeds are severed for more than six continuous hours.

Based strictly on the passage above, which of the following statements must logically be true regarding a commercial mining consortium operating under this protocol?

  1. A
    A consortium whose permit is suspended following a 72-hour turbidity breach can automatically resume operations once telemetry confirms turbidity levels below 20 NTU for 48 consecutive hours.
  2. A consortium that maintains continuous telemetry and avoids both a 72-hour turbidity breach above 45 NTU and telemetry interruption exceeding six continuous hours will retain the validity of its existing concession.Cevap
  3. C
    A consortium that experiences a temporary telemetry interruption of four continuous hours automatically forfeits its eligibility for sovereign risk insurance subsidies.
  4. D
    The ISA will phase out all active polymetallic nodule concessions within the next decade due to mounting environmental damage highlighted by non-governmental organizations.

Cevap

A consortium that maintains continuous telemetry and avoids both a 72-hour turbidity breach above 45 NTU and telemetry interruption exceeding six continuous hours will retain the validity of its existing concession.
The passage explicitly dictates that existing concessions remain valid unless a 72-hour turbidity breach is recorded or telemetry feeds are severed for more than six continuous hours. Therefore, a consortium that maintains continuous telemetry and avoids both of these specific triggers will logically retain the validity of its concession.

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1
Identify the conditions for maintaining concession validity set out in the passage.
The text states that existing concessions remain valid unless a 72-hour turbidity breach occurs or telemetry feeds are severed for more than six continuous hours.
Defining the boundary conditions established by the regulatory protocol.
2
Derive the logical conclusion for a consortium that refrains from violating these boundary conditions.
If a consortium avoids both a 72-hour turbidity breach of 45 NTU and a six-hour telemetry feed severance, the default condition holds and its concession remains valid.
Direct deduction from the stated exception rules.
3
Evaluate the incorrect options for logical fallacies or misreadings.
Statements asserting automatic resumption without committee approval, misinterpreting telemetry feed duration rules, or predicting unstated policy bans fail the test of strict logical necessity.
Eliminating distractors that introduce unstated premises or external bias.

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Direct Logical Deduction from Conditional Rules in Reading Passages
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