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Final ruleTook effect May 14, 2026

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

Built by the Tribune's code from the Federal Register. No AI wrote this page. Published in the Federal Register April 14, 2026. Document 2026-07250. Updated Nov. 12, 2026.

What it does

In this final rule, NESDIS establishes an updated schedule of fees for special access to NOAA data, information, and related products and services. NOAA continues to make its environmental data available to the public without any fee in most instances consistent with Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). NOAA disseminates this data without any fee primarily via NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information's (NCEI) Archive, Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System (CLASS), and partners such as the NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program. NESDIS is revising the fee schedule that has been in effect since 2023 to ensure that the fees accurately reflect the costs of providing access to the environmental data, information, and related products and services.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

15 CFR 950

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published 185 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 184 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0648-BN98 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective May 14, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Document number2026-07250
ActionFinal rule.
AgenciesCommerce Department; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PublishedApril 14, 2026
Effective dateMay 14, 2026
Regulation identifier (RIN)0648-BN98

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register