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thirty minutes will be reserved for
public comments and speaking times
will be assigned on a first-come, firstserve basis. The amount of time per
speaker will be determined by the
number of requests received but is likely
to be about five minutes each. Speakers
who wish to expand upon their oral
statements, those who had wished to
speak but could not be accommodated
on the agenda, and those who were
unable to participate are invited to
submit written statements by email to
jeffrey.brewer@nist.gov.
All in-person attendees, including
NIST staff, are required to pre-register to
be admitted. Please register via the
ISPAB website at https://csrc.nist.gov/
Events/2026/ispab-january-2026meeting by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time,
January 14, 2026. There is no deadline
to register for the virtual only option.
For attending in person, please note that
federal agencies, including NIST, can
only accept a state-issued driver’s
license or identification card for access
to federal facilities if such license or
identification card is issued by a state
that is compliant with the REAL ID Act
of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–13), or by a state
that has an extension for REAL ID
compliance. NIST currently accepts
other forms of federal-issued
identification in lieu of a state-issued
driver’s license. Non-U.S. citizens must
submit additional information. For
detailed information please visit: http://
nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Alaska Chinook Salmon
Economic Data Report (EDR)
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
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the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on July 11,
2025 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Alaska Chinook Salmon
Economic Data Report (EDR).
OMB Control Number: 0648–0633.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Extension of a current information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 151.
Average Hours per Response:
Compensated Transfer Report: 40 hours;
Vessel Fuel Survey: 4 hours; Vessel
Master Survey: 4 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 640.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska
Regional Office, is requesting renewal of
the currently approved information
collection for the Chinook Salmon
Economic Data Report (EDR) Program.
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) manages the Bering Sea pollock
fishery under the American Fisheries
Act (AFA) (16 U.S.C. 1851). AFA fishing
vessels harvest pollock in the Bering Sea
pollock fishery using pelagic trawl gear,
which consists of large nets towed
through the water by the vessel. At
times, Chinook salmon and pollock
occur in the same locations in the
Bering Sea; consequently, Chinook
salmon are incidentally caught in the
nets as pollock is harvested. This
incidental catch is called bycatch and is
also called prohibited species catch
(PSC).
The Chinook Salmon EDR Program
provides NMFS and the North Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council)
with data to evaluate the effectiveness of
Chinook salmon bycatch management
measures for the Bering Sea pollock
fishery that were implemented under
Amendment 91 to the Fishery
Management Plan for Groundfish of the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area (75 FR 53026, August
30, 2010). The Chinook Salmon EDR
requirements were revised in 2023 to
remove third party data verification
audits and blind formatting of EDR data
(88 FR 7586). The Chinook Salmon EDR
Program provides information to the
analysts and the Council and is
intended to evaluate the effectiveness of
the Chinook Salmon Incentive Plan
Agreement (IPA) (see OMB Control No.
0648–0401). The Chinook Salmon EDR
Program is intended to evaluate where,
when, and how pollock fishing and
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data to study and verify conclusions
drawn by industry in the IPA annual
reports.
The Chinook Salmon EDR Program is
managed primarily by the Alaska
Fisheries Science Center, with support
from NMFS Alaska Region, and is
administered in collaboration with
Pacific States Marine Fisheries
Commission. The EDR is a mandatory
reporting requirement under 50 CFR
679.65 for all entities participating in
the AFA Bering Sea (BS) pollock trawl
fishery, including vessel masters and
businesses that own or lease one or
more AFA-permitted vessels active in
fishing or processing BS pollock,
Western Alaska Community
Development Quota groups receiving
allocations of BS pollock, and
representatives of sector entities
receiving allocations of Chinook salmon
PSC from NMFS.
The Chinook Salmon EDR Program
consists of three separate forms:
• Chinook PSC Allocation In-season
Compensated Transfer Report—Collects
transfer and monetary compensation
information for Chinook salmon PSC
allocations.
• Vessel Fuel Survey—Collects fuel
consumption and average fuel costs.
• Vessel Master Survey—Collects
vessel master impressions of fishing
experiences during the year and of
Chinook salmon PSC avoidance efforts.
These collections are unchanged since
the previous revision in 2023.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: The EDR is a
mandatory reporting requirement under
50 CFR 679.65. Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. American
Fisheries Act, 16 U.S.C. 1851.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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 www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and

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entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0633.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the Washington
Department of Transportation Mukilteo
Wingwalls Repair Project in Puget
Sound, Washington
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of incidental
harassment authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to
Washington Department of
Transportation (WSDOT) for
authorization to take marine mammals
incidental to the Mukilteo Wingwalls
Repair Project in Puget Sound,
Washington.
DATES: This authorization is effective for
1 year from the date of notification by
the IHA holder, not to exceed 1 year
from the date of issuance (November 21,
2025).
ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the
application and supporting documents,
as well as a list of the references cited
in this document, can be obtained
online at: https://www.fisheries.
noaa.gov/national/marine-mammalprotection/incidental-takeauthorizations-construction-activities. If
you encounter any issues accessing
these documents, please contact the
person listed below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate
Fleming, Office of Protected Resources,
NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

MMPA Background and
Determinations
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
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section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA (16
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) which directs the
Secretary of Commerce (as delegated to
NMFS) to allow, upon request, the
incidental, but not intentional, taking by
harassment of small numbers of marine
mammals by U.S. citizens who engage
in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and the public has an
opportunity to comment on the
proposed IHA.
Specifically, NMFS will issue an IHA
if it determines that the taking will have
a negligible impact on the species or
stock(s) and will not have an
unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
subsistence uses (where applicable).
Further, NMFS must prescribe the
permissible methods of taking and other
‘‘means of effecting the least
[practicable] adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of such species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to here as ‘‘mitigation’’). NMFS
must also prescribe requirements
pertaining to the monitoring and
reporting of such takings. The
definitions of key terms, such as ‘‘take,’’
‘‘harassment,’’ and ‘‘negligible impact,’’
can be found in the MMPA and the
NMFS’ implementing regulations (see
16 U.S.C. 1362; 50 CFR 216.103).
On July 16, 2025, a notice of NMFS’
proposal to issue an IHA to WSDOT for
take of marine mammals incidental to
Mukilteo Wingwalls Repair Project in
Puget Sound, WA was published in the
Federal Register (90 FR 31965). In that
notice, NMFS indicated the estimated
numbers, type, and methods of
incidental take proposed for each
species or stock, as well as the
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
measures that would be required should
the IHA be issued. The Federal Register
notice also included analysis to support
NMFS’ preliminary conclusions and
determinations that the IHA, if issued,
would satisfy the requirements of
section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA for
issuance of the IHA. The Federal
Register notice included web links to a
draft IHA for review, as well as other
supporting documents.
No substantive comments were
received during the public comment
period. There are no changes to the
specified activity, the species taken, the
proposed numbers, type, or methods of
take, or the mitigation, monitoring, or
reporting measures in the proposed IHA
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available that would substantively
change any of the preliminary analyses,
conclusions, or determinations in the
proposed IHA notice. Therefore, the
preliminary analyses, conclusions, and
determinations included in the
proposed IHA are considered final.
National Environmental Policy Act
To comply with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and
NOAA Administrative Order (NAO)
216–6A, NMFS must review our
proposed action (i.e., the issuance of an
IHA) with respect to potential impacts
on the human environment.
This action is consistent with
categories of activities identified in
Categorical Exclusion B4 (IHAs with no
anticipated serious injury or mortality)
of the Companion Manual for NAO 216–
6A, which do not individually or
cumulatively have the potential for
significant impacts on the quality of the
human environment and for which we
have not identified extraordinary
circumstances that would preclude this
categorical exclusion. Accordingly,
NMFS has determined that the issuance
of the IHAs qualifies to be categorically
excluded from further NEPA review.
Endangered Species Act
Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.) requires that each Federal
agency ensures that any action it
authorizes, funds, or carries out is not
likely to jeopardize the continued
existence of any endangered or
threatened species or result in the
destruction or adverse modification of
designated critical habitat. To ensure
ESA compliance for the issuance of
IHAs, NMFS consults internally
whenever we propose to authorize take
for endangered or threatened species.
No incidental take of ESA-listed
species is proposed for authorization or
expected to result from this activity.
Therefore, NMFS has determined that
formal consultation under section 7 of
the ESA is not required for this action.
Authorization
Accordingly, consistent with the
requirements of section 101(a)(5)(D) of
the MMPA, NMFS has issued an IHA to
WSDOT for authorization to take marine
mammals incidental to Mukilteo
Wingwalls Repair Project in Puget
Sound, WA.

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