Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8716 Naval Observatory: Exchange of Information with Foreign Offices
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 867 — UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY › § 8716
Summary
The Navy may exchange almanac data with foreign offices to avoid duplicate work, and any agreement can end on one year's notice. The Nautical Almanac Office must be able to compute navigator data by itself in an emergency without foreign help.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8716
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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may arrange to exchange data with foreign almanac offices to reduce the duplication of work in preparing the different national nautical and astronomical almanacs and make available for publication a larger amount of data useful to navigators and astronomers. Each such arrangement shall be made terminable on one year’s notice.
(b)The work of the Nautical Almanac Office shall be so conducted that in an emergency the part of the work intended for the use of navigators may be computed by the force of the office without foreign cooperation.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 73965 U.S.C. 464.Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 342 (2d par.). In subsection (a) the words “as he may from time to time deem desirable with a view” are omitted as surplusage. The words “a larger amount of data useful” are substituted for the words “increase the total data which may be of use” for clarity. In subsection (b) the words “during the continuance of any such arrangement” are omitted as surplusage. The third proviso of 5 U.S.C. 464 is omitted as obsolete.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7396 of this title as this section. 1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–357 struck out “in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac” after “for publication”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8716
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102