NOAA, CBP, and Commerce Post Four Federal Register Actions on Sept. 3, 2026

Western Alaska CDQ Program Information Collection

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is seeking a 30-day public comment period — following an earlier 60-day window opened March 16, 2026 (91 FR 12584) — on an extension of its currently approved information collection for the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program (OMB Control Number 0648-0269). The collection covers 6 respondents and carries a total annual burden of 36 hours.

The CDQ Program, authorized under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), is described in the notice as an economic development program that provides eligible western Alaska villages with the opportunity to participate and invest in fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area, to support economic development in western Alaska, to alleviate poverty and provide economic and social benefits for residents of western Alaska, and to achieve sustainable and diversified local economies in western Alaska. NMFS and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council manage the groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic zone off Alaska under the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.

The collection contains four components: the CDQ Vessel Registration System, an online tool CDQ groups use to add or remove small hook-and-line catcher vessels from a registration list (registered vessels are exempt from License Limitation Program requirements under 50 CFR part 679); the Groundfish/Halibut CDQ and Prohibited Species Quota (PSQ) Transfer Request form, used to transfer annual amounts of groundfish, halibut CDQ, and PSQ — except Bering Sea Chinook salmon — between two CDQ groups; the Application for Approval of Use of Non-CDQ Harvest Regulations, by which a CDQ group, an association representing CDQ groups, or a voluntary fishing cooperative may request approval to use non-CDQ harvest regulations when CDQ regulations are more restrictive; and an appeals process for applicants who receive an adverse initial administrative determination on such an application. Average response times range from 10 minutes for vessel registration to 5 hours for the non-CDQ harvest regulations application.

Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System

Also published September 3, 2026, NOAA is seeking a 30-day comment period on a revision and extension of the Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System (OMB Control Number 0648-0007), following a 60-day comment period opened June 9, 2026. The collection covers 1,135 respondents and carries a total annual burden of 641 hours, with average response times of 10 minutes for Project Status Report Forms and 30 minutes for ASSIST Discrepancy Reports.

The notice describes NOAA's Office of Coast Survey as 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. Coast Survey also writes and publishes the United States Coast Pilot®, a series of ten nautical books that supplement nautical charts with essential marine information including 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 System consists of two tools: ASSIST, which receives discrepancy reports and construction notifications including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-issued Public Notices, Permit Applications, and Permits that could include proposals or authorizations to dredge and/or construct, remove, or abandon structures; and three Project Status Report Forms — the Permit/Public Notice Status Report, the Artificial Reef/Mariculture Status Report, and the Submerged Pipeline Status Report. Information sources include pilot associations, shipping companies, towboat operators, state and 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.

Coastal Zone Management Act Program Evaluations

NOAA's Office for Coastal Management is opening a 60-day comment period, closing November 2, 2026, on a revision and extension of its information collection for evaluations of state Coastal Zone Management programs and National Estuarine Research Reserves (OMB Control Number 0648-0661). The collection is required under Sections 312 and 315(f) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1458, 1461(f)), which mandates periodic evaluation of state coastal management programs and research reserves developed in accordance with the CZMA and approved by the Secretary of Commerce.

The Office for Coastal Management conducts these periodic evaluations of 34 coastal management programs and 30 research reserves, producing written findings for each. The notice states that the office anticipates conducting an average of 12 CZMA program evaluations annually over the next three years, with staff capacity expected to remain stable. The collection involves 221 estimated respondents, with an estimated 60 hours per CZMA program manager's evaluation and 15 minutes per partner or stakeholder response, for an estimated total annual burden of 771 hours. Respondent obligation is mandatory for CZMA programs and voluntary for program partners and stakeholders. The revision would eliminate or consolidate some questions and rewrite others to improve the usefulness of information collected, as stated in the notice. Estimated total annual cost to the public is $0 in recordkeeping/reporting costs.

Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee Meeting

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) will hold its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, conducted virtually via webinar only. The Committee provides advice to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, and the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on matters pertaining to commercial operations of CBP and related functions. The agenda item for the meeting is the Committee's consideration of formulating a recommendation to the agencies for CBP's development and implementation of an updated communications outreach strategy designed to disseminate essential supplemental guidance to the trade community. Meeting materials will be available September 14, 2026, at the CBP website. Written comments must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. EDT on September 18, 2026.

Antidumping Duty Review: Chlorinated Isocyanurates from Spain

The Commerce Department's International Trade Administration has issued preliminary results of an antidumping duty administrative review covering chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain for the period June 1, 2024, through May 31, 2025. Commerce preliminarily determines that Electroquímica de Hernani, S.A. (Hernani) and Ercros, S.A. (Ercros) did not make sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value during the review period. Commerce is also rescinding the review with respect to Industrias Químicas Tamar, S.L., pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from that company during the period of review and no party commented on Commerce's notice of intent to rescind.

The review was initiated July 25, 2025, based on timely requests, under the antidumping duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain (70 FR 36562, June 24, 2005). The timeline was affected by two tolling actions: a 47-day toll on November 14, 2025, due to a lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, and an additional 21-day toll on November 24, 2025, due to a backlog of documents filed via ACCESS during the shutdown. Hernani and Ercros were selected as mandatory respondents on September 16, 2025. The preliminary results deadline was subsequently extended to no later than August 31, 2026. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results.

What to Watch

• September 14, 2026: COAC meeting materials posted on the CBP website.
• September 18, 2026: Deadline for written public comments ahead of the COAC quarterly meeting.
• September 23, 2026: COAC quarterly meeting, 1:00–5:00 p.m. EDT, virtual.
• November 2, 2026: Deadline for public comments on NOAA's CZMA program evaluations information collection revision.
• The CDQ Program and Nautical Discrepancy System collections each allow 30 days for public comment from the September 3, 2026, publication date.

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