Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 48 — Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration
§ 3504a. Ocean and coastal mapping Federal funding opportunity
Statutory text
In general
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the National Ocean Exploration Act,1 the Administrator shall develop an integrated ocean and coastal mapping Federal funding match opportunity, to be known as the “Brennan Ocean Mapping Fund” in memory of Rear Admiral Richard T. Brennan, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with Federal, State, Tribal, local, nonprofit, private industry, or academic partners in order to increase the coordinated acquisition, processing, stewardship, and archival of new ocean and coastal mapping data in United States waters.
Rules
The Administrator shall develop administrative and procedural rules for the ocean and coastal mapping Federal funding match opportunity developed under subsection (a), to include—
specific and detailed criteria that must be addressed by an applicant, such as geographic overlap with preestablished priorities, number and type of project partners, benefit to the applicant, coordination with other funding opportunities, and benefit to the public;
determination of the appropriate funding match amounts and mechanisms to use, such as grants, agreements, or contracts; and
other funding award criteria as are necessary or appropriate to ensure that evaluations of proposals and decisions to award funding under this section are based on objective standards applied fairly and equitably to those proposals.
Geospatial services and contract vehicles
The ocean and coastal mapping Federal funding match opportunity developed under subsection (a) shall leverage Federal expertise and capacities for geospatial services and Federal geospatial contract vehicles using the private sector for acquisition efficiencies.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act
Pub. L. 111–11 title XII § 12206 · 123 Stat. 991
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3504a
(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12206, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10307(e)(2), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3978.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12206, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10307(e)(2), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3978.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 12206. EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS. Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to supersede or alter the existing authorities of any Federal agency with respect to ocean and coastal mapping.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The date of the enactment of the National Ocean Exploration Act, referred to in subsec. (a), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 117–263, which was approved . Prior versions of the bill that was enacted into law as title CIII of div. J of Pub. L. 117–263 included such Short Title, but it was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 117–263.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 12206 of Pub. L. 111–11 was renumbered 12208 and is classified to section 3505 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12206, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10307(e)(2), , 136 Stat. 3978.)