15 U.S.C. § 9707 — Estimates of precipitation frequency in the United States
submitted 4 years ago by Pub. L. 117-316 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 412 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator must maintain a NOAA program that estimates and communicates precipitation frequency across the defined United States. Estimates must be scientifically reviewed, publicly posted, and made at least every ten years, with specified partnerships and funding.
(a)(1) “Freely Associated States” means Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, each of which has a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
(2) “United States” means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Freely Associated States.
(b) The Administrator* must establish the “NOAA Precipitation Frequency Atlas of the United States” to compile, estimate, analyze, and communicate precipitation frequency in the United States.
(c) The Atlas—
(1) must better inform the public about the time and geographic distribution of heavy precipitation, seasonal precipitation patterns, and trends in annual-maximum-series data; and
(2) may be the Federal Government’s official source for United States precipitation-frequency estimates and related information.
(d)(1) The Atlas must include the precipitation-frequency estimates the Administrator considers appropriate.
(2) Estimates must be made at least once every 10 years and may be made more often if the Administrator considers that appropriate.
(3) The estimates and methods used must undergo an appropriate scientific process set by the Administrator and be published on a publicly accessible NOAA website.
(e) The Administrator may partner with Federal agencies, private-sector members, academic cooperative partnerships, or nongovernmental associations to perform (c)’s functions.
(f) The Administrator may consult relevant Federal, State*, local, Tribal, and Territorial agencies, research institutions, and the private sector as necessary.
(g) The Administrator may coordinate with other Federal agencies.
(h) From amounts otherwise authorized for this chapter, Congress may appropriate $3,500,000 for each fiscal year 2022 through 2030.
In this section:
The term “Freely Associated States” means the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, which have each entered into a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
The term “United States” means the 50 States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Freely Associated States.
The Administrator* shall establish a program, to be known as the “NOAA Precipitation Frequency Atlas of the United States”, to compile, estimate, analyze, and communicate the frequency of precipitation in the United States.
The NOAA Precipitation Frequency Atlas of the United States—
shall better inform the public and provide information on—
temporal and spatial distribution of heavy precipitation;
analyses of seasonality in precipitation; and
trends in annual maximum series data; and
may serve as the official source of the Federal Government on estimates of precipitation frequency and associated information with respect to the United States.
The NOAA Precipitation Frequency Atlas of the United States shall include such estimates of the frequency of precipitation in the United States as the Administrator determines appropriate.
Such estimates—
shall be conducted not less frequently than once every 10 years; and
may be conducted more frequently if determined appropriate by the Administrator.
Such estimates and methodologies used to conduct such estimates shall be—
subject to an appropriate, scientific process, as determined by the Administrator; and
published on a publicly accessible website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration*.
The Administrator may partner with other Federal agencies, members of the private sector, academic cooperative partnerships, or nongovernment associations to assist in carrying out the functions described in subsection (c).
In carrying out this section, the Administrator may consult with relevant Federal, State*, local, Tribal, and Territorial government agencies, research institutions, and the private sector, as the Administrator determines necessary.
In carrying out this section, the Administrator may coordinate with other Federal agencies.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, from amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this chapter, $3,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2030.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 117–316, § 12, Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4413.)
- 2022Enacted · Pub. L. 117-316 · 136 Stat. 4413
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