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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 47 — Ocean Exploration

§ 3401. Purpose

Statutory text

The purpose of this subchapter is to establish the national ocean exploration program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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.

  1. Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009

    Pub. L. 111–11 title XII § 12001 · 123 Stat. 991

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3401

    Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1417

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1417

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 12001. PURPOSE.   The purpose of this part is to establish the national ocean exploration program and the national undersea research program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

  2. James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

    Pub. L. 117–263 div. J title CIII § 10305(a) · 136 Stat. 2395

    Struck · 33 U.S.C. § 3401

    Pub. L. 117–263 struck out “and the national undersea research program” after “national ocean exploration program”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 117–263 struck out “and the national undersea research program” after “national ocean exploration program”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Purpose.— Section 12001 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3401) is amended by striking “and the national undersea research program”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–263 struck out “and the national undersea research program” after “national ocean exploration program”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12101, , 123 Stat. 1419, which provided that part II of subtitle A of title XII of Pub. L. 111–11, which enacted subchapter II of this chapter, could be cited as the “NOAA Undersea Research Program Act of 2009”, was repealed by Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10306(a), , 136 Stat. 3974.

Credits

2009–2022 · 2 acts
  1. 2009Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12001, , 123 Stat. 1417
  2. 2022Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10305(a), , 136 Stat. 3971.
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(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12001, , 123 Stat. 1417; Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10305(a), , 136 Stat. 3971.)

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