Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60
§9703 Observations and Modeling for Total Water Prediction
Title 15 › Chapter 121— FLOOD LEVEL OBSERVATION, OPERATIONS, AND DECISION SUPPORT › § 9703
Summary
The Administrator must partner with one or more colleges or universities to test observations that could improve total water prediction, and must give priority to observations from uncrewed aerial systems. If those observations help, keep using them when practical. The Administrator must also expand coastal ocean models’ coverage, detail, accuracy, and efficiency, and make those models work with hydrological models.
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Title 15, §9703
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(a)(1)The Administrator shall establish partnerships with 1 or more institutions of higher education (as defined in section 1001 of title 20) to evaluate observations that would improve total water prediction.
(2)In establishing partnerships under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall prioritize partnerships to evaluate observations from uncrewed aerial systems.
(b)If the Administrator determines that incorporating additional observations improves total water prediction, the Administrator shall, to the extent practicable, continue incorporating those observations.
(c)The Administrator shall advance geographic coverage, resolution, skill, and efficiency of coastal oceanographic modeling, including efforts that improve the coupling of and interoperability between hydrological models and coastal ocean models.
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15 U.S.C. § 9703
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60