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§1513a Cost estimates for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs included in Department budget justification

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 40— - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE › § 1513a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

From fiscal year 2007 onward, the Secretary of Commerce must include with the President’s budget cost estimates for every NOAA procurement, acquisition, or construction program costing more than $5,000,000 and its budget needs for the next five fiscal years.

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Title 15, §1513a

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Beginning in fiscal year 2007 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include in the budget justification materials that the Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31) an estimate for each National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration procurement, acquisition and construction program having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5,000,000 and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for each of the five subsequent fiscal years.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section is from the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, which is title II of the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Similar ProvisionsSimilar provisions were contained in the following appropriation acts: Pub. L. 118–42, div. C, title I, Mar. 9, 2024, 138 Stat. 128. Pub. L. 117–328, div. B, title I, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 4517. Pub. L. 117–103, div. B, title I, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 108. Pub. L. 116–260, div. B, title I, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 1241. Pub. L. 116–93, div. B, title I, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2392. Pub. L. 116–6, div. C, title I, Feb. 15, 2019, 133 Stat. 98. Pub. L. 115–141, div. B, title I, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 406. Pub. L. 115–31, div. B, title I, May 5, 2017, 131 Stat. 188. Pub. L. 114–113, div. B, title I, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2292. Pub. L. 113–235, div. B, title I, Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2179. Pub. L. 113–76, div. B, title I, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 49. Pub. L. 113–6, div. B, title I, Mar. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 239. Pub. L. 112–55, div. B, title I, Nov. 18, 2011, 125 Stat. 597. Pub. L. 111–117, div. B, title I, Dec. 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3119. Pub. L. 108–447, div. B, title II, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2881.

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15 U.S.C. § 1513a

Title 15Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73