§3205 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

The Administrator must run and support a tsunami research program. The program works with other federal agencies, State, tribal, and territorial governments, universities, the coordinating committee, and the panel. It develops better ways to detect tsunamis, make forecasts, share warnings, reduce damage, and set technical standards. Work includes new sensors, information and communication technology, data collection and analysis, tsunami tracking, and numerical forecast modeling. The program must look at cost‑effective mitigation options, including a new generation of the Deep‑ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis array, sensors in telecom cables, other real‑time systems, and use of the Administration’s supercomputers to make fast forecasts for all U.S. coastlines. It must coordinate with the National Weather Service to move technology into operations, study how communities respond to warnings and evacuation guidance, develop ways to validate maps and models, and make the research public.

Title 33, §3205

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(a)The Administrator shall, in consultation with such other Federal agencies, State, tribal, and territorial governments, and academic institutions as the Administrator considers appropriate, the coordinating committee under section 3204(d) 11 So in original. Probably should read “section 3204(b)”. of this title, and the panel under section 3206a(a) of this title, support or maintain a tsunami research program to develop detection, forecast, communication, and mitigation science and technology, including advanced sensing techniques, information and communication technology, data collection, analysis, assessment for tsunami tracking and numerical forecast modeling, and standards development.

(b)The research program supported or maintained under subsection (a) shall—

(1)consider other appropriate and cost effective solutions to mitigate the impact of tsunami, including the improvement of near-field and distant tsunami detection and forecasting capabilities, which may include use of a new generation of the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis array, integration of tsunami sensors into commercial and Federal telecommunications cables, and other real-time tsunami monitoring systems and supercomputer capacity of the Administration to develop a rapid tsunami forecast for all United States coastlines;

(2)coordinate with the National Weather Service on technology to be transferred to operations;

(3)conduct social science research to develop and assess community warning, education, and evacuation materials;

(4)develop the technical basis for validation of tsunami maps, numerical tsunami models, digital elevation models, and forecasts; and

(5)ensure that research and findings are available to the public and the scientific community.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 109–424 and title VIII of Pub. L. 109–479 enacted substantially identical sections. Pub. L. 109–424 was repealed by section 512(a) of Pub. L. 115–25.

Amendments

2017—Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(1), (2), designated first and second sentences of existing provisions as subsecs. (a) and (b), respectively, and inserted headings. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(1), (2), substituted “The Administrator shall, in consultation with such other Federal agencies, State, tribal, and territorial governments, and academic institutions as the Administrator considers appropriate, the coordinating committee under section 3204(d) of this title, and the panel under section 3206a(a) of this title, support or maintain” for “The Administrator shall, in consultation with other agencies and academic institutions, and with the coordinating committee established under section 3204(b) of this title, establish or maintain” and “assessment for tsunami tracking and numerical forecast modeling, and standards development.” for “and assessment for tsunami tracking and numerical forecast modeling.” Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(2), substituted “The research program supported or maintained under subsection (a) shall—” for “Such research program shall—”. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(3)(A), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “consider other appropriate research to mitigate the impact of tsunami;”. Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(3)(B), substituted “conduct” for “include” and struck out “and” at end. Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(3)(D), added par. (4). Former par. (4) redesignated (5). Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 115–25, § 506(3)(C), (E), redesignated par. (4) as (5) and substituted “to the public and the scientific community” for “to the scientific community”.

§3205 Tsunami Research Program

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Title 33, §3205

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