§ 5852. Agricultural Weather Office

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. 1990

   National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990

   Pub. L. 101–624 title XVI § 1638 · 104 Stat. 3359

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 5852

   Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1638, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3748

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1638, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3748

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 1638. AGRICULTURAL WEATHER OFFICE. (a) Establishment of the Office and Administration of the System.— (1) Establishment required.— The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish in the Department of Agriculture an Agricultural Weather Office to plan and administer the National Agricultural Weather Information System. The system shall be comprised of the office established under this section and the activities of the State agricultural weather information systems described in section 1640. (2) Director.— The Secretary shall appoint a Director to manage the activities of the Agricultural Weather Office and to advise the Secretary on scientific and programmatic coordination for climate, weather, and remote sensing. (b) Authority.— The Secretary, acting through the Office, may undertake the following activities to carry out this subtitle: (1) Enter into cooperative projects with the National Weather Service to— (A) support operational weather forecasting and observation useful in agriculture; (B) sponsor joint workshops to train agriculturalists about the optimum utilization of agricultural weather and climate data; (C) jointly develop improved computer models and computing capacity; and (D) enhance the quality and availability of weather and climate information needed by agriculturalists. (2) Obtain standardized weather observation data collected in near real time through State agricultural weather information systems. (3) Make, through the Cooperative State Research Service, competitive grants under subsection (c) for research in atmospheric sciences and climatology. (4) Make grants to eligible States under section 1640 to plan and administer State agricultural weather information systems. (5) Coordinate the activities of the Office with the weather and climate research activities of the Cooperative State Research Service, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Sciences Foundation Atmospheric Services Program, and the National Climate Program. (6) Encourage private sector participation in the National Agricultural Weather Information System through mutually beneficial cooperation with the private sector, particularly in generating weather and climatic data useful for site-specific agricultural weather forecasting. (c) Competitive Grants Program.— (1) Grants authorized.— With funds allocated to carry out this subsection, the Secretary of Agriculture may make grants to State agricultural experiment stations, all colleges and universities, other research institutions and organizations, Fed-eral agencies, private organizations and corporations, and individuals to carry out research in all aspects of atmospheric sciences and climatology that can be shown to be important in both a basic and developmental way to understanding, forecasting, and delivering agricultural weather information. (2) Competitive basis.— Grants made under this subsection shall be made on a competitive basis. (d) Priority.— In selecting among applications for grants under subsection (c), the Secretary shall give priority to proposals which emphasize— (1) techniques and processes that relate to weather-induced agricultural losses, and to improving the advisory information on weather extremes such as drought, floods, freezes, and storms well in advance of their actual occurrence; (2) the improvement of site-specific weather data collection and forecasting; or (3) the impact of weather on economic and environmental costs in agricultural production.

2. 1991

   Pub. L. 102–237 title IV § 407(6) · 105 Stat. 1818

   Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 5852(b)(5)

   Pub. L. 102–237 substituted “National Science Foundation” for “National Sciences Foundation”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 102–237 substituted “National Science Foundation” for “National Sciences Foundation”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (6) in section 1638(b)(5) (7 U.S.C. 5852(b)(5)), by striking “National Sciences Foundation” and inserting “National Science Foundation”;

3. 2008

   Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008

   Pub. L. 110–246 § 7511(c)(18) · 122 Stat. 1651

   Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 5852(b)(3); 7 U.S.C. § 5852(b)(5)

   Pub. L. 110–246, § 7511(c)(18), substituted “National Institute of Food and Agriculture” for “Cooperative State Research Service”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(3), (5). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7511(c)(18), substituted “National Institute of Food and Agriculture” for “Cooperative State Research Service”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (18) Section 1638(b) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5852(b)) is amended— (A) in paragraph (3), by striking “Cooperative State Research Service” and inserting “National Institute of Food and Agriculture”; and (B) in paragraph (5), by striking “Cooperative State Research Service” and inserting “National Institute of Food and Agriculture”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title. Amendment by section 7511(c)(18) of Pub. L. 110–246 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 7511(c) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.

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