10 U.S.C. § 8716 — Naval Observatory: exchange of information with foreign offices
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 95 words · no verdicts yet
The Navy Secretary may arrange data exchanges with foreign almanac offices to reduce duplicated work and publish more useful information. The Nautical Almanac Office must be able to calculate navigators’ material without foreign help in an emergency.
(a) The Navy Secretary may arrange exchanges of data with foreign almanac offices to reduce duplicated preparation of national nautical and astronomical almanacs and make more useful data available to navigators and astronomers. Each arrangement must be terminable with one year’s notice. (b) The Nautical Almanac Office must conduct its work so that, in an emergency, its own staff can calculate the part intended for navigators without foreign cooperation.
The Secretary of the Navy may arrange to exchange data with foreign almanac offices to reduce the duplication of work in preparing the different national nautical and astronomical almanacs and make available for publication a larger amount of data useful to navigators and astronomers. Each such arrangement shall be made terminable on one year’s notice.
The work of the Nautical Almanac Office shall be so conducted that in an emergency the part of the work intended for the use of navigators may be computed by the force of the office without foreign cooperation.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 457, § 7396; Pub. L. 95–357, Sept. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 591; renumbered § 8716, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(4), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-357 · 92 Stat. 591
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1836
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