Notice2026-18093
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System
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Published
September 3, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 170 (Thursday, September 3, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56641-56642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-18093]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on June 9, 2026, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0007.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission. Revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection.
Number of Respondents: 1,135.
Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes: Project Status Report
Forms; ASSIST Discrepancy Reports: 30 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 641.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision to and extension of
the currently approved Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System
(System). The System consists of both the Aimed Stakeholder Interaction
and Survey Tool (ASSIST) and the Project Status Report Forms, which
include the Permit/Public Notice Status Report, the Artificial Reef/
Mariculture Status Report, and the Submerged Pipeline Status Report
forms.
NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (Coast Survey) is the nation's
nautical chart maker, maintaining and updating over a thousand charts
covering the 3.5 million square nautical miles of coastal waters in the
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and the Great Lakes. The marine
transportation system relies on charting accuracy and precision to keep
navigation safe and coastal communities protected from environmental
disasters at sea.
Coast Survey also writes and publishes the United States Coast
Pilot[supreg] (Coast Pilot), a series of ten nautical books that
supplement nautical charts with essential marine information that
cannot be shown graphically on the charts and is not readily available
elsewhere. Coast Pilot information includes, but is not limited to,
channel descriptions, anchorages, bridge and cable clearances, tides
and tidal currents, prominent features, pilotage, towage, weather, ice
conditions, wharf descriptions, dangers, routes, traffic separation
schemes, small craft facilities, and Federal Regulations applicable to
navigation.
The marine environment and shorelines are constantly changing.
Coast Survey makes every effort to update information portrayed in
nautical charts and described in the Coast Pilot. The purpose of the
System is to offer a formal, standardized instrument to information
sources that facilitates corrections and updates and also monitors and
documents the changes Coast Survey makes to nautical charts and the
Coast Pilot.
Information sources include, but are not limited to, pilot
associations, shipping companies, towboat operators, state marine
authorities, city marine authorities, local port authorities, marine
operators, hydrographic research vessels, naval vessels, Coast Guard
cutters, merchant vessels, fishing vessels, pleasure boats, U.S. Power
Squadron Units, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Units, and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE).
As stated above, the System consists of both ASSIST and the three
Project Status Report Forms. Coast Survey uses ASSIST (<a href="https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/">https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/</a>) to receive
discrepancy reports and construction notifications in the form of
USACE-issued Public Notices, Permit Applications, and Permits, which
could include a proposal or authorization to dredge and/or construct,
remove, or abandon structures. Coast Survey vets these Public Notices,
Permit Applications, and Permits for the potential of a charting
action, and then registers them into a database.
Coast Survey uses the three Project Status Report Forms (i.e., the
Permit/Public Notice Status Report, the Artificial Reef/Mariculture
Status Report, and the Submerged Pipeline Status Report forms) to
determine the status of USACE-permitted projects and obtain as-built
and/or survey data associated with the completion of these projects.
The Project Status Report Forms give USACE permittees a standardized
way to notify Coast Survey of the status of their projects so that the
as-built and survey data can be used by Coast Survey for nautical
charts and the Coast Pilot. Permittees are asked to notify Coast Survey
of the completion of their projects. Permittees may find blank Project
Status Report Forms on the Coast Survey website, or permittees may
request an email version of the forms from Coast Survey. Coast Survey
periodically mails customized versions of the Project Status Report
Forms to permittees, requesting information on the completion status of
their permitted projects. The Project Status Report Forms are also
periodically mailed to permittees as a way of gathering information
regarding ongoing permitted projects. A permittee's use of these forms
enables Coast Survey to capture complete, registration-ready source
packages that require less
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frequent correspondence with the permittee prior to source
registration. In other words, use of the forms is instrumental in
accelerating the availability of important, and possibly critical,
nautical data to Coast Survey's cartographic production branches for
charting action.
Coast Survey has made several updates to one of the Project Status
Report Forms: The Permit/Public Notice Status Report form. These
changes ensure that third-party data meets Coast Survey's quality
standards required for authoritative charting. Key enhancements to the
Permit/Public Notice Status Report form include expanded data
collection for hydrographic surveys, such as construction start and end
dates and specific units or datums for both Vertical and Horizontal
Coordinate Reference Systems. To align with modern open-data policies,
a new Data License section has been added to the Permit/Public Notice
Status Report form, offering CC0-1.0 or CC-BY-4.0 equivalency and
directing users to the Coast Survey data licensing website for further
details. Structurally, the Permit/Public Notice Status Report form now
features a dedicated second page for ``Special Instructions,''
providing more granular technical guidance than previous versions.
Additionally, the contact section of the Permit/Public Notice Status
Report form now requires a Company/Organization Name. This change
facilitates better customer service and serves as a vital link for
resolving nautical discrepancies with information sources. The Citizen
Science Chart Update Project is complete and that collection is being
removed from this OMB Control Number.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; state, local, and
tribal government; universities; individuals or households; not for-
profit institutions, professional and other mariners, etc.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: None.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website: <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function and entering either the title of the collection or
the OMB Control Number 0648-0007.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-18093 Filed 9-2-26; 8:45 am]
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