§3707 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

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NASA must use its satellites and other space-based tools as fully as possible to watch ocean acidification and coastal acidification and their effects. NASA must carry out its research and monitoring to match the strategic research plan made by the Subcommittee under section 3704, and it must coordinate with other U.S. agencies and with other countries and international groups. NASA researchers who collect the data described in section 3705(d) must follow the standards, protocols, or procedures set under section 3705(d) and must send those data to the Administrator and the Secretary under any rules the Administrator or the Secretary issues.

Title 33, §3707

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(a)The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in coordination with other relevant agencies, shall ensure that space-based monitoring assets are used in as productive a manner as possible for monitoring of ocean acidification and coastal acidification and their respective impacts.

(b)The Administrator shall ensure that the Agency’s research and monitoring activities on ocean acidification and coastal acidification are carried out in a manner consistent with the strategic research plan developed by the Subcommittee under section 3704 of this title.

(c)The Administrator shall encourage coordination of the Agency’s ocean acidification and coastal acidification activities with such activities of other nations and international organizations.

(d)Researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under this subtitle that collect data described under section 3705(d) of this title shall—

(1)collect such data in accordance with the standards, protocols, or procedures established pursuant to section 3705(d) of this title; and

(2)submit such data to the Administrator and the Secretary, in accordance with any rules promulgated by the Administrator or the Secretary.

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2022—Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(1), substituted “ocean acidification and coastal acidification” for “ocean acidification” wherever appearing in text. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(2), substituted “their respective impacts” for “its impacts”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(3), added subsec. (d).

§3707 NASA ocean acidification activities

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Title 33, §3707

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