[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 18, 2017)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 18220-18221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07759]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

15 CFR Part 950

[Docket No. 161107999-6999-01]
RIN 0648-BG39


Schedule of Fees for Access to NOAA Environmental Data, 
Information, and Related Products and Services

AGENCY: National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service 
(NESDIS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: In this final rule, NESDIS adds a new service/product to the 
NESDIS FY 2017 schedule of fees for the sale of its data, information, 
and related products and services to users. NESDIS is authorized under 
the United States Code to assess fees, up to fair market value, for 
access to environmental data, information, and products derived from, 
collected, and/or archived by NOAA. This action adds a new user fee for 
a data product titled, High Definition Geomagnetic Model--Real Time.

DATES: Effective May 18, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn Hodges (301) 713-7064.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    NESDIS operates NOAA's National Center for Environmental 
Information (NCEI). Through NCEI, NESDIS provides and ensures timely 
access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources, 
provides information services, and develops science products. NESDIS 
maintains some 1,300 databases containing over 2,400 environmental 
variables at NCEI and seven World Data Centers. These centers respond 
to over 2,000,000 requests for these data and products annually from 
over 70 countries. This collection of environmental data and products 
is growing rapidly, both in size and sophistication, and as a result 
the associated costs have increased.
    Users have the ability to access the data offline, online and 
through the NESDIS e-Commerce System (NeS) online store. Our ability to 
provide data, information, products and services depends on user fees.

Fee Schedule

    In an October 22, 2015, final rule (80 FR 63914), NESDIS 
established a new schedule of fees for the sale of its data, 
information, and related products and services to users (``October 2015 
Fee Schedule Rule''). NESDIS revised the fee schedule that had been in 
effect since 2013 to ensure that the fees accurately reflect the costs 
of providing access to the environmental data, information, and related 
products and services.
    NESDIS will continue to review the user fees periodically, and will 
revise such fees as necessary. Any future changes in the user fees and 
their effective date will be announced through notice in the Federal 
Register.

Need for Addition

    High Definition Geomagnetic Model--Real Time accurately models the 
magnetic fields originating in the Earth's magnetosphere in real-time 
using a combination of solar-wind observing satellites situated between 
Earth and sun and a chain of geomagnetic observatories on the Earth's 
surface.
    We are adding a new user fee for this data product--High Definition 
Geomagnetic Model--Real Time--to the current user fee schedule. 
Accordingly, Appendix A to Part 950--Schedule of User Fees for Access 
to NOAA Environmental Data includes the user fees established in 
October 2015 and the new fee established by this final rule: High 
Definition Geomagnetic Model--Real Time Fee. In addition, NESDIS has 
deleted the New Fee column in Appendix A to avoid confusion given that 
this final rule is not issuing a new schedule of fees but rather the 
addition of one new fee.

Classification

    This rule has been determined to be not significant for purposes of 
E.O. 12866. The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 
U.S.C. 553) requiring notice of proposed rulemaking and the opportunity 
for public comment are inapplicable because this rule falls within the 
public property exception of subparagraph (a)(2) of section 553, as it 
relates only to the assessment of fees, as authorized by 15 U.S.C. 
1534, that accurately reflect the costs of providing access to publicly 
available environmental data, information, and related products. 
Further, no other law requires that a notice of proposed rulemaking and 
an opportunity for public comment be given for this rule. Because a 
notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for public comment are 
not required to be given for this rule under 5 U.S.C. 553 or by any 
other law, the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) are not applicable. Accordingly, no Regulatory Flexibility 
Analysis is required and none has been prepared.

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 950

    Organization and functions (government agencies).

    Dated: April 5, 2017.
Cherish Johnson,
Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer.

    For the reasons set forth above, 15 CFR part 950 is amended as 
follows:

PART 950--ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND INFORMATION

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1. The authority citation for part 950 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: (5 U.S.C. 552, 553). Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 
1970.


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2. Appendix A to part 950 is revised to read as follows:

Appendix A to Part 950--Schedule of User Fees for Access to NOAA 
Environmental Data



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  Name of product/data/publication/information/service      Current fee
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NOAA National Center for Environmental Information:
    Department of Commerce Certification................         $116.00
    General Certification...............................           92.00
    Paper Copy..........................................            3.00
    Data Poster.........................................           18.00
    Shipping Service....................................            8.00
    Rush Order Fee......................................           60.00
    Super Rush Order Fee................................          100.00

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    Foreign Handling Fee................................           43.00
    NEXRAD Doppler Radar Color Prints...................           21.00
    Paper Copy from Electronic Media....................            8.00
    Offline In-Situ Digital Data........................          175.00
    Microfilm Copy (roll to paper) per frame from                  20.00
     existing film......................................
    Satellite Image Product.............................           92.00
    Offline Satellite, Radar, and Model Digital Data              753.00
     (average unit size is 1 terabyte)..................
    Conventional CD-ROM/DVD.............................          110.00
    Specialized CD-ROM/DVD..............................          208.00
    CD-ROM/DVD Copy, Offline............................           43.00
    CD-ROM/DVD Copy, Online Store.......................           16.00
    Facsimile Service...................................           89.00
    Order Handling......................................           11.00
    Non-Digital Order Consultation......................           10.00
    Digital Order Consultation..........................           28.00
    Non-Serial Publications.............................           32.00
    Non-Standard Data; Select/Copy to CD, DVD or                   77.00
     Electronic Transfer, Specialized, Offline..........
    Digital and Non-Digital Off-the-Shelf Products,                13.00
     Online.............................................
    Digital and Non-Digital Off-the-Shelf Products,                17.00
     Offline............................................
    Order Consultation Fee..............................            4.00
    Handling and Packing Fee............................           12.00
    World Ocean Database-World Ocean Atlas 2009 DVDs....             (*)
    Mini Poster.........................................            2.00
    Icosahedron Globe...................................            1.00
    Convert Data to Standard Image......................            8.00
    Single Orbit OLS & Subset...........................           19.00
    Single Orbit OLS & Subset, Additional Orbits........            6.00
    Geolocated Data.....................................           50.00
    Subset of Pre-existing Geolocated Data..............           32.00
    Global Nighttime Lights Annual Composite from One          74,924.00
     Satellite..........................................
    Most Recent DMSP-OLS Thermal Band/Cloud Cover                    (*)
     Mosaics from Multiple Satellites...................
    Daily or Nightly Global Mosaics (visible & thermal            332.00
     band, single spectral band or environmental data)..
    Global Nighttime Lights Lunar Cycle.................        8,259.00
    Radiance Calibrated Global DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights             (*)
     Annual Composite from One Satellite................
    Research Data Series CD-ROM/DVD.....................           25.00
    Custom Analog Plotter Prints........................             (*)
    NOS Bathymetric Maps and Miscellaneous Archived                 8.00
     Publication Inventory..............................
    Global Annual Composite of Nighttime Lights in             10,794.00
     Monthly Increments From One Satellite..............
    High Definition Geomagnetic Model...................       20,262.00
    High Definition Geomagnetic Model--Real Time........       26,204.00
    Provision of Global Nighttime VIIRS day/night band         55,727.00
     data in geotiff format.............................
    Provision of Global Nighttime VIIRS day/night band         27,888.00
     data in HDF5 Format................................
    Provision of regional data from the VIIRS instrument       14,306.00
     on a daily basis...................................
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* Reflects a product no longer offered.

[FR Doc. 2017-07759 Filed 4-17-17; 8:45 am]
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