§3206a Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel

Summary

The Administrator must pick an existing Science Advisory Board working group to serve as the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel. The panel must have at least 7 members chosen from colleges, universities, or State agencies who have expertise in areas like physical and social sciences, information technology, coastal resilience, emergency management, or other relevant fields. No member can be a federal employee. At least once every 4 years the panel must review federal work on tsunami research, detection, forecasting, warning, mitigation, resilience, and preparedness and send its findings and any recommendations for laws or actions to the Administrator and others the Administrator chooses. At least once every 4 years the Administrator must give those findings and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.