Notice2025-20289
Recertification of Cook Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council
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Published
November 19, 2025
Effective
September 1, 2025
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentCoast Guard
Abstract
The Coast Guard announces the recertification of the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (CIRCAC) as an alternative voluntary advisory group for Cook Inlet, Alaska. On June 13, 2025, CIRCAC requested an annual recertification in accordance with the 2002 revised recertification procedures. Based on the submitted recertification application, there have been no substantive changes to the information provided at the last triennial recertification.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 52082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20289]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
United States Coast Guard
[Docket No USCG-2025-0242]
Recertification of Cook Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of recertification.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the recertification of the Cook
Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (CIRCAC) as an alternative
voluntary advisory group for Cook Inlet, Alaska. On June 13, 2025,
CIRCAC requested an annual recertification in accordance with the 2002
revised recertification procedures. Based on the submitted
recertification application, there have been no substantive changes to
the information provided at the last triennial recertification.
DATES: This recertification is effective for the period from September
1, 2025, through August 31, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document,
call or email LT Case Kuikhoven, United States Coast Guard Arctic
District, by phone at (907) 463-2809 or email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b8dbd9cbdd96d996d3cdd1d3d0d7ceddd6f8cdcbdbdf96d5d1d4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fe9d9f8d9bd09fd0958b97959691889b90be8b8d9d99d0939792">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
On December 31, 1992, the Coast Guard published Guidelines for
Recertification of Alternative Voluntary Groups In Lieu of a Council
(57 FR 62600) to assist groups seeking recertification under the Oil
Terminal and Oil Tanker Environmental Oversight and Monitoring Act of
1990 (33 U.S.C. 2732) (the OPA 90 Act). On July 7, 1993, the Coast
Guard published a notice (58 FR 36504) identifying the factors that the
Coast Guard would consider in making its determination as to whether
advisory groups should be certified in accordance with the OPA 90 Act,
and the procedures which the Coast Guard would follow in meeting its
recertification responsibilities under the OPA 90 Act. On September 16,
2002, the Coast Guard published revised recertification procedure for
alternative voluntary advisory groups established in lieu of councils
(67 FR 58440). According to the revised procedures, an applicant
alternative group requesting recertification is required to provide the
Coast Guard with a comprehensive application once every 3 years
(triennially). For each of the two years between the triennial
application procedures, the applicant utilizes a streamlined process
and submits a recertification application describing any substantive
changes to the information provided at the previous triennial
recertification. Public comment is only solicited during the triennial
comprehensive review. 2025 is the year for the streamlined process.
Since the last triennial recertification application submitted by
CIRCAC on June 20, 2023 (88 FR 39857), there have been no substantive
changes to the CIRCAC's plans and activities and CIRCAC can be
recertified based on the information previously presented to the Coast
Guard. We published the last recertification announcement on August 31,
2023 (88 FR 60221).
Recertification
By letter to CIRCAC dated September 1, 2025, the Commander, Coast
Guard Arctic District, recertified that the CIRCAC qualifies as an
alternative voluntary advisory group under 33 U.S.C. 2732(o). This
recertification terminates on August 31, 2026.
R.R. Little,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, United States Coast Guard
Arctic District.
[FR Doc. 2025-20289 Filed 11-18-25; 8:45 am]
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