Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 40 — Department of Commerce
§ 1537. Needs assessment for data management, archival, and distribution
Statutory text
Not later than 12 months after , and at least biennially thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall complete an assessment of the adequacy of the environmental data and information systems of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In conducting such an assessment, the Secretary shall take into consideration the need to—
provide adequate capacity to manage, archive, and disseminate environmental data and information collected and processed, or expected to be collected and processed, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other appropriate departments and agencies;
establish, develop, and maintain information bases, including necessary management systems, which will promote consistent, efficient, and compatible transfer and use of data;
develop effective interfaces among the environmental data and information systems of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other appropriate departments and agencies;
develop and use nationally accepted formats and standards for data collected by various national and international sources; and
integrate and interpret data from different sources to produce information that can be used by decisionmakers in developing policies that effectively respond to national and global environmental concerns.
Not later than 12 months after , and biennially thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall develop and submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a comprehensive plan, based on the assessment under paragraph (1), to modernize and improve the environmental data and information systems of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report shall—
set forth modernization and improvement objectives for the 10-year period beginning with the year in which the plan is submitted, including facility requirements and critical new technological components that would be necessary to meet the objectives set forth;
propose specific agency programs and activities for implementing the plan;
identify the data and information management, archival, and distribution responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with respect to other Federal departments and agencies and international organizations, including the role of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with respect to large data systems like the Earth Observing System Data and Information System; and
provide an implementation schedule and estimate funding levels necessary to achieve modernization and improvement objectives.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–567 title I § 106(c) · 106 Stat. 4270
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1537
(Pub. L. 102–567, title I, § 106(c), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4274.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–567, title I, § 106(c), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4274.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Strategic Plan.— (1) The Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall jointly develop and, not more than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a strategic plan for development, procurement, and operation of the environmental satellite program of the Department of Commerce. (2) The objectives of the strategic plan shall be— (A) to ensure continuous and adequate operational environmental satellite coverage; and (B) to require direct Federal fiscal and administrative accountability in all aspects of such environmental satellite program. (3) The strategic plan shall— (A) delineate the management duties and functions of each Federal department or agency involved in such satellite program; (B) establish funding responsibilities for each Federal department or agency in a manner which reflects their respective management duties and functions; (C) set forth procedures to be followed in the development, procurement, and operations of environmental satellites in such program; (D) minimize the potential for developmental and procurement problems, and for cost overruns; (E) provide for effective interagency and international coordination; (F) provide for research and development activities to ensure that the procurement of operational environmental satellites relies on proven technologies, and to investigate potential improvements in data applications and operations for such satellites in order to improve the national weather warning and forecast system; and (G) specify legislative and administrative actions necessary to implement the plan and to accomplish the objectives described in paragraph (2).
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