Title 51 — National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-73
§60506 Sharing of climate related data
Title 51 › Subtitle Subtitle VI— - Earth Observations › Chapter CHAPTER 605— - EARTH SCIENCE › § 60506
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The Administrator must align agency climate-data policies with GAO and National Academies recommendations, including the Decadal Survey "Earth Science and Applications from Space." This is to make accurate, current global warming data publicly available.
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Title 51, §60506
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The Administrator shall work to ensure that the Administration’s policies on the sharing of climate related data respond to the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office’s report on climate change research and data-sharing policies and to the recommendations on the processing, distribution, and archiving of data by the National Academies Earth Science Decadal Survey, “Earth Science and Applications from Space”, and other relevant National Academies reports, to enhance and facilitate their availability and widest possible use to ensure public access to accurate and current data on global warming.
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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 6050642 U.S.C. 17825(c).Pub. L. 110–422, title XI, § 1109(c), Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4811.
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51 U.S.C. § 60506
Title 51 — National and Commercial Space Programs
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73