Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 56A — Global Change Research
§ 2936. Scientific assessment
Statutory text
On a periodic basis (not less frequently than every 4 years), the Council, through the Committee, shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an assessment which—
integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the Program and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings;
analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and
analyzes current trends in global change, both human-inducted 1 and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “human-induced”.
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.
Global Change Research Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–606 title I § 106 · 104 Stat. 3096
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 2936
(Pub. L. 101–606, title I, § 106, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3101.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–606, title I, § 106, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3101.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 106. SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT. On a periodic basis (not less frequently than every 4 years), the Council, through the Committee, shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an assessment which— (1) integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the Program and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings; (2) analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and (3) analyzes current trends in global change, both human-inducted and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision