43 U.S.C. § 2804 — National spatial data infrastructure

(a) The Infrastructure must ensure that geospatial data^* from covered agencies, State, local, and tribal governments, the private sector, and higher-education institutions is available and easily integrated to improve understanding of the physical and cultural world. (b) Its goals are to (1) ensure (A) data is reviewed before disclosure for compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974 and to prevent disclosure of personally identifiable information, including assessing re-identification risk; (B) data is designed to improve statistical accuracy in raw and derived products; (C) the public has free and open access to data, information, and interpretive products under OMB Circular A-130 or its successor; (D) proprietary interests in licensed information and data are protected; and (E) Federal information systems and data can interoperate and be shared so covered agencies and partners can draw on resources; and (2) support and advance a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure consistently with national-security, defense, intelligence, and international-trade requirements, including requiring covered agencies to develop international geospatial data under voluntary international consensus standards defined in OMB Circular A-119 or its successor. (c) The Committee^* must prepare and maintain a strategic plan for developing and implementing the Infrastructure consistently with national-security, defense, and emergency-preparedness policies about data access. (d) The Committee must advise Federal and non-Federal geospatial-data users about their responsibilities for implementation.