51 U.S.C. § 60505 — Coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 111-314 to r/title-51-NATIONAL-AND-COMMERCIAL-SPACE-PROGRAMS · 276 words · no verdicts yet
NASA and NOAA must set up a Joint Working Group to coordinate their missions. Each year by February 15, they report to Congress on coordinating their Earth science programs. NASA can't transfer a mission to NOAA until a transition plan is approved and funded.
(a) Joint Working Group. NASA's Administrator* and NOAA's Administrator must appoint a Joint Working Group. This group reviews and monitors both agencies' missions to make sure they are coordinated as much as possible — in how missions are designed, operated, and transitioned into regular use, where that's appropriate. The Joint Working Group also prepares the transition plans required under subsection (c).
(b) Coordination Report. No later than February 15 each year, NASA's Administrator and NOAA's Administrator must jointly send a report to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The report explains how NASA's and NOAA's Earth science programs will be coordinated during the next fiscal year — the one after the year the report is sent.
(c) Coordination of Transition Planning and Reporting. NASA's Administrator, working with NOAA and consulting other relevant agencies, must evaluate NASA's science missions for their potential to become operational tools. For any existing or future Earth observing system found to have that potential, the Administrator must prepare a transition plan.
(d) Limitation. NASA cannot transfer any Earth science mission or Earth observing system to NOAA until two things happen: the plan required under subsection (c) has been approved by both Administrators, and money to support the transfer has been identified in the President's budget request for NOAA.
The Administrator* and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration* shall appoint a Joint Working Group, which shall review and monitor missions of the two agencies to ensure maximum coordination in the design, operation, and transition of missions where appropriate. The Joint Working Group shall also prepare the plans required by subsection (c).
Not later than February 15 of each year, the Administrator and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall jointly transmit a report to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on how the Earth science programs of the Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be coordinated during the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the report is transmitted.
The Administrator, in conjunction with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and in consultation with other relevant agencies, shall evaluate relevant Administration science missions for their potential operational capabilities and shall prepare transition plans for the existing and future Earth observing systems found to have potential operational capabilities.
The Administrator shall not transfer any Administration Earth science mission or Earth observing system to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration until the plan required under subsection (c) has been approved by the Administrator and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and until financial resources have been identified to support the transition or transfer in the President’s budget request for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3426.)
- 2010Enacted · Pub. L. 111-314 · 124 Stat. 3426
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 111-314 on 2010-12-18.
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