The Department of Commerce (DOC) has updated its NEPA implementing order, DOC Administrative Order 216-6, effective July 1, 2025, to align with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 amendments to NEPA and the February 2025 removal of CEQ regulations. Separately, NOAA is soliciting public comments through July 31, 2025 on proposed revisions to its categorical exclusions (CEs), including six new CEs covering remote sensing licensing, shellfish outplanting, release response and cleanup, and aircraft operations, plus substantive and editorial revisions to twenty-two existing CEs. This notice is procedural and does not analyze project-specific environmental impacts.12