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progress of the NCST investigation
focused on the impacts of Hurricane
Maria in Puerto Rico, progress of the
NCST investigation focused on the
Champlain Towers South partial
building collapse that occurred in
Surfside, Florida, and provide responses
to the Committee’s 2024
recommendations. The final agenda will
be posted on the NIST website at
https://www.nist.gov/topics/disasterfailure-studies/national-constructionsafety-team-ncst/advisory-committeemeetings.
DATES: The NCST Advisory Committee
will meet on Tuesday, September 9,
2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and
on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, from
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
The meeting will be open to the public.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via web conference. For instructions on
how to attend and/or participate in the
meeting, please see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tanya Brown-Giammanco, Director of
the Disaster and Failure Studies
Program, and Acting Chief of the
Disaster Impact Reduction Office,
Engineering Laboratory, NIST. Tanya
Brown-Giammanco’s email address is
Tanya.Brown-Giammanco@nist.gov and
her phone number is (301) 975–2822.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee was established pursuant to
Section 11 of the NCST Act (Pub. L.
107–231, codified at 15 U.S.C. 7301 et
seq.). The Committee is currently
composed of seven members, appointed
by the Director of NIST, who were
selected on the basis of established
records of distinguished service in their
professional community and their
knowledge of issues affecting the
National Construction Safety Teams.
The Committee advises the Director of
NIST on carrying out the NCST Act;
reviews the procedures developed for
conducting investigations; and reviews
the reports issued documenting
investigations. Background information
on the NCST Act and information on the
NCST Advisory Committee is available
at https://www.nist.gov/topics/disasterfailure-studies/national-constructionsafety-team-ncst/advisory-committee.
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C.
1001 et seq., notice is hereby given that
the NCST Advisory Committee will
meet on Tuesday, September 9, 2025
from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Time and on Tuesday September 16,
2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The
meeting will be open to the public and
will be held via web conference.
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able to participate in the meeting from
remote locations. The primary purposes
of this meeting are to update the
Committee on the progress of the NCST
investigation focused on the impacts of
Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,
progress of the NCST investigation
focused on the Champlain Towers
South partial building collapse that
occurred in Surfside, Florida, and
provide responses to the Committee’s
2024 recommendations. The agenda
may change to accommodate Committee
business. The final agenda will be
posted on the NIST website at https://
www.nist.gov/topics/disaster-failurestudies/national-construction-safetyteam-ncst/advisory-committee-meetings.
This meeting will be recorded.
Individuals and representatives of
organizations who would like to offer
comments and suggestions related to
items on the Committee’s agenda for
this meeting are invited to request a
place on the agenda. Approximately
twenty minutes will be reserved for
public comments and speaking times
will be assigned on a first-come, firstserved basis. The amount of time per
speaker will be determined by the
number of requests received. Questions
from the public will not be considered
during this period. All those wishing to
speak must do so by registering by 5:00
p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday,
September 4, 2025, at the link provided
below, and selecting ‘‘yes’’ to the public
comment question in the registration.
Any member of the public is also
permitted to file a written statement
with the advisory committee; speakers
who wish to expand upon their oral
statements, those who wish to speak but
cannot be accommodated on the agenda,
and those who are unable to attend are
invited to submit written statements
electronically by email to disaster@
nist.gov.
Anyone wishing to attend the
National Construction Safety Team
Advisory Committee meeting via web
conference must register by 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on Thursday, September
4, 2025, at: https://www.nist.gov/newsevents/events/2025/09/nationalconstruction-safety-team-advisorycommittee. Once successfully
registered, attendees will receive a link
to join the meetings by September 8,
2025.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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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; Emergency Beacon
Registrations
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 April 28,
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: Emergency Beacon
Registrations.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0295.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular; Revision
and extension of an approved
collection.
Number of Respondents: 376,063.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 94,016.
Needs and Uses: This is a request
from NOAA’s National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service
for extension and revision of an
approved information collection:
Emergency Beacon Registrations (OMB
Control Number 0648–0295).
The United States, Canada, France,
and Russia operate the Search and
Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking
(COSPAS/SARSAT), a satellite system
with equipment that can detect and
locate ships, aircraft and individuals in
distress if an emergency radio beacon is
being carried. This system is used to
detect digitally encoded signals in the
406.000–406.100 MHz range, coming
from these emergency beacons. The
406.000–406.100 MHz beacons transmit
a unique identifier, making possible the
ability to combine previously collected
data associated with that beacon and
transmit this vital data along with the
beacon’s position to the appropriate
rescue coordination center.

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Persons buying 406.000–406.100 MHz
emergency radio beacons are required to
register them with NOAA prior to
installation. These requirements are
contained in Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) regulations at 47
CFR 80.1061, 47 CFR 87.199 and 47 CFR
95.1402.
The registration data is used to
facilitate a rescue and to suppress the
costly consequences of false alarms,
which if unsuppressed would initiate
the launch of a rescue mission and
thereby deplete limited resources and
possibly result in the loss of lives. This
is accomplished through the use of the
data provided to the rescue forces from
the beacon registration database
maintained by the NOAA’s United
States Mission Control Center (USMCC)
for Search and Rescue, to contact the
distressed person(s) or alternate party
via a phone call or radio broadcast.
Other data provides rescuers with
descriptive material of the element in
distress. The registration information
must be kept up-to-date.
Four registration forms are used: (1)
The EPIRB (Emergency Position
Indicating Radio Beacon) form is used
for nautical beacons; (2) The ELT
(Emergency Locator Transmitter) form is
used for aircraft beacons; (3) The PLB
(Personal Locator Beacon) form is used
to register portable beacons carried by
individuals; and (4) Ship Security
Alerting System (SSAS) beacons are
carried aboard ships, are similar to
EPIRBs and are used in the event of an
emergency situation such as piracy or
terrorism.
The PLB form, used for both
watercraft and aircraft, is being updated
to allow the collection and sharing of
additional data with search and rescue
(SAR) forces in order to aid in a
successful SAR response. If the user
checks that their ‘‘VEHICLE TYPE’’ is
‘‘Boat’’, they are asked to complete the
following additional fields: Vessel
Name, Federal/State Registration No.,
Home Port Marina/Dock, City and State
(ST). If the user checks that their
‘‘VEHICLE TYPE’’ is ‘‘Aircraft’’, they are
asked to complete the following
additional fields: Airport Code, City and
State (ST). The city and state of the
marina or airport is needed to help SAR
forces to quickly locate the airport/
marina where the aircraft/boat is stored
permanently. This helps SAR forces to
identify false alerts (i.e., if the beacon
goes off where the aircraft/boat is stored,
it is likely to be a false alert). Likewise,
if a distress situation is suspected, SAR
forces can call the airport/marina to get
more information on the owner and the
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The EPIRB and SSAS forms were
updated to have separate lines for
Inmarsat number and Iridium number.
Inmarsat and Iridium are both global
satellite communication providers, but
they utilize different satellite
constellations and offer varying
coverage and features. Mariners may use
either option for emergency
communications on board vessels and
listing both options allows registered
owners to select the option that is
applicable to them. The EPIRB and
SSAS forms were updated to have two
separate lines for Inmarsat number and
Iridium number.
In addition, all four forms are being
updated to streamline wording, update
the instructions, and add the beacon
registration email address
(beacon.registration@noaa.gov).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government.
Frequency: As required.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)
regulations at 47 CFR 80.1061, 47 CFR
87.199 and 47 CFR 95.1402.
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
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0295.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the Kingston
Ferry Trestle Seismic Retrofit Project
in Kingston, WA
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 harass marine mammals
during construction activities associated
with a Kingston Ferry Terminal project
in Kingston, WA.
DATES: The IHA is effective for 1 year
from the date of notification by the IHAholder, not to exceed 1 year from the
date of issuance (July 25, 2025).
ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the
application and supporting documents,
as well as a list of the references cited
in this document, may be obtained
online at: https://www.fisheries.
noaa.gov/national/marine-mammalprotection/incidental-takeauthorizations-construction-activities.
In case of problems accessing these
documents, please call the contact listed
below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Austin Demarest, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

MMPA Background and
Determinations
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Among the exceptions is
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

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