43 U.S.C. § 31e — Geologic mapping program 5-year plan

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This law tells the Secretary of the Interior how to write the geologic mapping program's 5-year plan. The plan must set overall priorities and explain how the program will be managed. It must also set mapping standards and track mapping work nationwide to avoid duplicated effort.

(a) In general: The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director, must write a 5-year plan for the geologic mapping program. The advisory committee gets to advise on and review this plan before it's final. (b) Requirements: The 5-year plan has to identify two things. (1) The overall priorities for the whole geologic mapping program. (2) How the program's overall management structure and operations will work. This includes several specific pieces. (A) It must describe the Survey's role as the overall management lead — including the Survey's job of building a national program that meets federal needs while still supporting what states need. (B) It must describe the responsibilities of the state geological surveys, focusing especially on ways to build the states' own needs, missions, abilities, and requirements into the nationwide program. (C) It must set up ways to identify short-term and long-term priorities for each part of the program. For the federal component, the priority-setting process must respond to federal mission needs for map information, critical scientific problems that maps could help solve, and shared federal-state needs where joint mapping projects serve the national interest. For the state component, it must respond to specific needs within individual states, and to shared needs among neighboring states with common requirements. For the education component, it must respond to whatever map-information needs come from federal and state missions. (D) It must set up a way to adopt scientific and technical mapping standards for preparing and publishing geologic maps — both general-purpose and special-purpose ones. This ensures the maps use consistent cartographic and scientific conventions, and gives a basis for judging how comparable and how good different map products are. (E) It must set up a way to track an inventory of published and ongoing mapping projects nationwide. This helps with planning and sharing information, and helps avoid duplicating work that's already being done.

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(a) In general

The Secretary, acting through the Director, shall, with the advice and review of the advisory committee, prepare a 5-year plan for the geologic mapping program.

(b) Requirements

The 5-year plan shall identify—

(1)

overall priorities for the geologic mapping program; and

(2)

implementation of the overall management structure and operation of the geologic mapping program, including—

(A)

the role of the Survey in the capacity of overall management lead, including the responsibility for developing the national geologic mapping program that meets Federal needs while fostering State needs;

(B)

the responsibilities of the State geological surveys, with emphasis on mechanisms that incorporate the needs, missions, capabilities, and requirements of the State geological surveys, into the nationwide geologic mapping program;

(C)

mechanisms for identifying short- and long-term priorities for each component of the geologic mapping program, including—

(i)

for the Federal component, a priority-setting mechanism that responds to—

(I)

Federal mission requirements for geologic map information;

(II)

critical scientific problems that require geologic maps for their resolution; and

(III)

shared Federal and State needs for geologic maps, in which joint Federal-State geologic mapping projects are in the national interest;

(ii)

for the State component, a priority-setting mechanism that responds to—

(I)

specific intrastate needs for geologic map information; and

(II)

interstate needs shared by adjacent States that have common requirements; and

(iii)

for the education component, a priority-setting mechanism that responds to requirements for geologic map information that are dictated by Federal and State mission requirements;

(D)

a mechanism for adopting scientific and technical mapping standards for preparing and publishing general- and special-purpose geologic maps to—

(i)

ensure uniformity of cartographic and scientific conventions; and

(ii)

provide a basis for assessing the comparability and quality of map products; and

(E)

a mechanism for monitoring the inventory of published and current mapping investigations nationwide to facilitate planning and information exchange and to avoid redundancy.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 102–285, § 6, as added Pub. L. 106–148, § 6, Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1722.)

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1999Enacted · Pub. L. 102-285 · 113 Stat. 1722

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