These announcements appeared on all LNM in the last week of 2022 and earlier

 

USCG Local Notices to Mariners Statment

OREGON — WASHINGTON — IDAHO — NOAA planned cancellation of Paper and Raster charts (Revised from LNM 09/21)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is undertaking a multi-year program to end production and maintenance of its suite of over 1,000 traditional paper nautical charts and all associated raster chart products and services, including: Print-on-Demand (POD) paper nautical charts, Full-size chart PDF files, BookletChart™ PDF files, NOAA raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC®), the NOAA RNC tile service, and the online RNC viewer. Six months prior to cancelation, a notice of the intent to cancel a specific chart will be provided via a "Last Edition" notice. The final cancelation of a chart will be made via a "Canceled" notice. Both types of notices will appear in LNM Section IV, "Chart Correction." A comprehensive list of all cancelled NOAA charts is available at: http://www.charts.noaa.gov/MCD/Dole.shtml

Traditional paper nautical chart production is ending to enable the creation and maintenance of larger scale, more up-to-date, higher quality coverage of NOAA electronic navigational chart (NOAA ENC®) product. This will significantly enhance the amount of charted detail available to mariners. More information about the NOAA program to sunset traditional paper charts is on the NOAA Coast Survey website at:
https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/charts/farewell-to-traditional-nautical-charts.html. An online NOAA Custom Chart application at:
https://devgis.charttools.noaa.gov/pod is available to create chart images from ENC data, which may then be printed. Notices to Mariners will not be issued for NOAA Custom Charts.

OREGON — WASHINGTON — IDAHO — Farewell to traditional nautical charts
NOAA is in the process of "sunsetting" or ending the production of traditional paper charts. However, even prior to traditional chart production ending, users may notice differences between paper charts and ENCs. There are two broad categories of data that are applied onto NOAA ENCs and paper / raster nautical charts — "Critical Corrections" and "Routine" data. Critical Corrections may be newly discovered shoals or other dangers to navigation, as well as changes in the positions or characteristics of aids to navigation (buoys, beacons, and lights). These are typically changes that are published by the Coast Guard in the weekly LNM. Critical corrections are applied to ENCs first, then applied to paper and raster nautical charts. These changes generally appear on both product types (raster and ENC) within a week of each other. However, new Routine source data are now ONLY applied to NOAA ENCs and not to traditional paper and raster nautical charts. Routine data includes the results of ordinary hydrographic and shoreline surveys, which could be extensive. Any specific dangers revealed during routine surveys are extracted from the data and classified as Critical Corrections to be applied to all products. For more information visit the NOAA website:
https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/charts/farewell-to-traditional-nautical-charts.html