[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9421-9422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02537]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hydrographic Services Review Panel Meeting, March 4th-5th, 2025
AGENCY: Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: This serves as the notice of a public meeting for the NOAA
Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) Federal Advisory Committee
from March 4th through March 5th, 2025, in St. Petersburg, FL. The
agenda for the HSRP public meeting will be posted in advance of the
meeting on the HSRP website. Individuals or groups who would like to
comment on NOAA navigation, observation, and positioning services
topics are encouraged to submit public comments in advance of the HSRP
public meeting via email, during the public meeting in person, or
during the public meeting via the ``Questions'' function in the meeting
webinar if joining the public meeting virtually.
DATES: Members of the public may attend the NOAA HSRP public meeting in
person or virtually on the following dates and at the following times:
1. March 4th, 2025, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
2. March 5th, 2025, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: Please visit the HSRP online landing page at https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/hsrp/hsrp.html for instructions on how to
register to attend the HSRP public meeting in person and virtually, and
for the most up-to-date information about the HRSP public meeting. The
HSRP public meeting agenda, which is subject to change, will also be
available via a link on the HSRP website. Draft meeting documents,
presentations, background materials, past HSRP recommendation letters,
and issue papers may be found there as well. Comments for the HSRP
public meeting record may be submitted by one of the following methods:
Email: Send written comments in advance of the HSRP public
meeting to [email protected], with ``March 2025 HSRP meeting
public comments'' in the subject line of the email message.
Webinar: Submit written comments during the HSRP public
meeting through the HSRP webinar's ``Questions'' function. As time
allows, commenters may be invited to orally expand on written comments
they submitted during the public meeting's public comment periods.
In person: Provide public comments during the daily public
comment periods at the in-person meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amanda Phelps, Acting NOAA HSRP
Program Manager, email: [email protected], phone: (240) 543-
0266.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of
1998, as amended (HSIA; 33 U.S.C. 892 et seq.), established the HSRP as
a Federal Advisory Committee (see 33 U.S.C. 892c) to advise the NOAA
Administrator ``on matters related to the responsibilities and
authorities set forth in [33 U.S.C. 892a]'' of the HSIA, ``and such
other appropriate matters as the Administrator refers to the [HSRP] for
review and advice.''
The HSRP invites NOAA stakeholder feedback and welcomes public
comments in advance of and during the upcoming HSRP public meeting on
the
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use of NOAA's navigation, observations, and positioning data, science,
products, and services for the National Ocean Service's Center for
Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, National Geodetic
Survey, and Office of Coast Survey, and the NOAA/University of New
Hampshire Joint Hydrographic Center. Public comments sent in advance of
the HSRP public meeting will be shared with the HSRP members, posted on
the meeting website, and included in the public record for the meeting.
Individuals and groups may also submit public comments during the
scheduled daily public comment periods during the meeting or through
the webinar's ``Questions'' function. These public comments will be
read into the record during public comment periods. As time allows,
commenters may be invited to orally expand on their written comments
during the meeting's public comment periods. Due to time constraints,
all public comments may not be addressed orally during the meeting.
Matters To Be Considered:
The HSRP members will focus on the issues relevant to NOAA's
navigation, observations, and positioning services, and the value these
services bring the Nation, and invite suggestions from stakeholders and
partners for improvements to these services. This suite of NOAA
services supports safe and efficient navigation, the Blue Economy,
resilient coasts and communities, and the nationwide positioning
information infrastructure to support America's climate needs and
commerce. Specifically, the HSRP will consider:
National Ocean Service programs' recent activities, such
as updates to the National Spatial Reference System, datums, national
ocean and coastal mapping goals, hydrographic surveying, nautical
charting, uncrewed systems, coastal remote sensing and bathymetric
lidar, photogrammetry, positioning, sea level rise, and water levels in
support of ``seamless data.''
The status of NOAA's navigation services in the context of
recent legislation.
Measuring, monitoring, and mitigating flooding and sea
level change and the contribution of NOAA's critical foundational
geospatial data to projects.
NOAA navigation data, products, and services that enable
further economic growth and impact safe navigation.
Other topics related to NOAA programs and activities, such
as bathymetric and coastal/ocean modeling, tide and current
observations, resilience and coastal data and information systems to
support planning for climate change in ports and coastal communities,
flooding/inundation, contributions to the Blue Economy, Physical
Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS[supreg]) sensor enhancements and
expansion, Precision Marine Navigation, the transition from raster
paper charts to Electronic Navigational Charts, geodetic observations,
gravity modeling, data stewardship, education and training to sustain
the workforce necessary for NOAA navigation services missions, and
scientific mapping and technology research projects tied to cooperative
agreements between NOAA and other partners.
Special Accommodations:
This public meeting is accessible to people with disabilities and
there will be sign language interpretation and captioning services.
Please direct requests for other auxiliary aids to
[email protected] at least 10 business days in advance of
the meeting.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 892 et seq.
Benjamin K. Evans,
Rear Admiral, Director, Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-02537 Filed 2-11-25; 8:45 am]
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