NOAA announces in the Federal Register a policy that brings POD charts within the envelope of NOAA official charts.

NOAA recognizes two official paper nautical charts.

Chart Content, Integrity, Currency, and Authoritative Sources.

How to determine the NGA (formerly NIMA) and Local Notice to Mariners "Additional Corrections Through" information.

NIMA changes name to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

POD charts Without LORAN-C Grid Lines

Access a list of Critical Safety Items Originating within NOAA and Already Applied to each Chart but not yet published in the Notices.

Puget Sound / Strait of Juan de Fuca 
Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) Charts

Charts not yet available via POD.