Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 88 — Research
§ 5851. Short title and purposes
Statutory text
Short title
This subchapter may be cited as the “National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990”.
Purposes
The purposes of this subchapter are—
to provide a nationally coordinated agricultural weather information system, based on the participation of universities, State programs, Federal agencies, and the private weather consulting sector, and aimed at meeting the weather and climate information needs of agricultural producers;
to facilitate the collection, organization, and dissemination of advisory weather and climate information relevant to agricultural producers, through the participation of the private sector and otherwise;
to provide for research and education on agricultural weather and climate information, aimed at improving the quality and quantity of weather and climate information available to agricultural producers, including research on short-term forecasts of thunderstorms and on extended weather forecasting techniques and models;
to encourage, where feasible, greater private sector participation in providing agricultural weather and climate information, to encourage private sector participation in educating and training farmers and others in the proper utilization of agricultural weather and climate information, and to strengthen their ability to provide site-specific weather forecasting for farmers and the agricultural sector in general; and
to ensure that the weather and climate data bases needed by the agricultural sector are of the highest scientific accuracy and thoroughly documented, and that such data bases are easily accessible for remote computer access.
Legislative history
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National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–624 title XVI § 1637 · 104 Stat. 3359
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 5851
(Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1637, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3747.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1637, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3747.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1637. SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSES. (a) Short Title.— This subtitle may be cited as the “National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990”. (b) Purposes.— The purposes of this subtitle are— (1) to provide a nationally coordinated agricultural weather information system, based on the participation of universities, State programs, Federal agencies, and the private weather consulting sector, and aimed at meeting the weather and climate information needs of agricultural producers; (2) to facilitate the collection, organization, and dissemination of advisory weather and climate information relevant to agricultural producers, through the participation of the private sector and otherwise; (3) to provide for research and education on agricultural weather and climate information, aimed at improving the quality and quantity of weather and climate information available to agricultural producers, including research on short-term forecasts of thunderstorms and on extended weather forecasting techniques and models; (4) to encourage, where feasible, greater private sector participation in providing agricultural weather and climate information, to encourage private sector participation in educating and training farmers and others in the proper utilization of agricultural weather and climate information, and to strengthen their ability to provide site-specific weather forecasting for farmers and the agricultural sector in general; and (5) to ensure that the weather and climate data bases needed by the agricultural sector are of the highest scientific accuracy and thoroughly documented, and that such data bases are easily accessible for remote computer access.
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