§60304 Program evaluation

Summary

The Administrator must set up an advisory committee to monitor the program. The committee will include experts from State, local, regional, and tribal agencies, university researchers, and the remote sensing and geospatial industries. It must consult the Federal Geographic Data Committee and other industry groups. Even if other rules would normally end such a committee, this one must stay in place until the program ends. By December 31, 2009, the Administrator must send Congress an evaluation of how well the program used remote sensing and other geospatial information to help State, local, regional, and tribal agencies. The evaluation must be done by an independent entity.