§8548 Weather enterprise outreach

Summary

The Under Secretary may set up ways to reach people and groups in the weather community to review NOAA’s forecasts and forecast products and to find the highest-priority forecast needs of the groups listed below. When doing this outreach, the Under Secretary must talk with leading experts and innovators from state and local emergency management, state agriculture agencies, Indian tribes and Native Hawaiians, private aerospace and earth‑observing companies, operational forecasters, universities, meteorology professional societies, and any other stakeholder groups they consider appropriate.