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119-s-4439119th CongressWALLET

Built To Last Act of 2026

Sponsored By: Senator Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]

Introduced

Summary

Would establish a federal system to produce and share consistent, forward-looking meteorological information that standards bodies, model building codes, and voluntary certification programs can use to plan for future extreme weather and environmental trends. The bill focuses on modeling future extreme weather and related trends and on getting usable data and technical help to people who write standards and codes.

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  • Standards and code developers would receive publicly available long-term meteorological data and targeted technical assistance from the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help incorporate future risk into standards, model building codes, and voluntary certifications.
  • Researchers and federal agencies would be directed to create a consistent federal dataset that models extreme weather and other environmental trends, including wildfires, coastal and inland flooding, land subsidence, and sea level rise, and the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere would support needed research and provide mesoscale meteorological information when appropriate.
  • Implementation and outreach would use existing channels such as the Fire Research Center and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy would convene an interagency working group with the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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Federal weather data for building codes

This bill would set up a federal working group led by the OSTP Director with USGCRP and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group. The Under Secretary of Commerce would fund and identify research to produce a consistent set of forward-looking long-term meteorological data that models extreme weather and environmental trends. The Under Secretary would also give mesoscale meteorological information to the NIST Director when appropriate or when NIST asks. The NIST Director, with the Under Secretary, would publish the data, find federal and non-federal standards and code efforts, and advise and help standards and building-code groups use the data. NIST would carry out work through its Fire Research Center, the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, and other authorities. The bill would also define terms like "Director," "Under Secretary," "extreme weather," "other environmental trends," and require the Director to define "long-term." These duties would take effect upon enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]

WI • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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