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Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§3707 Nasa Ocean Acidification Activities

Title 33 › CHAPTER 50 — FEDERAL OCEAN ACIDIFICATION RESEARCH AND MONITORING › § 3707

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

NASA must use its space-based monitors to track ocean and coastal acidification and their effects. It must work with other federal agencies, other nations, and international organizations, and follow the Subcommittee’s strategic research plan under section 3704. Researchers who collect data under section 3705(d) must follow the standards in section 3705(d) and submit that data to the Administrator and the Secretary under any rules those officials set.

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Title 33, §3707

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Ocean acidification activities
The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in coordination with other relevant agencies, shall ensure that space-based monitoring assets are used in as productive a manner as possible for monitoring of ocean acidification and coastal acidification and their respective impacts.
(b)Program consistency
The Administrator shall ensure that the Agency’s research and monitoring activities on ocean acidification and coastal acidification are carried out in a manner consistent with the strategic research plan developed by the Subcommittee under section 3704 of this title.
(c)Coordination
The Administrator shall encourage coordination of the Agency’s ocean acidification and coastal acidification activities with such activities of other nations and international organizations.
(d)Requirement
Researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under this subtitle that collect data described under section 3705(d) of this title shall—
(1)collect such data in accordance with the standards, protocols, or procedures established pursuant to section 3705(d) of this title; and
(2)submit such data to the Administrator and the Secretary, in accordance with any rules promulgated by the Administrator or the Secretary.

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Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(1), substituted “ocean acidification and coastal acidification” for “ocean acidification” wherever appearing in text. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(2), substituted “their respective impacts” for “its impacts”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(3), added subsec. (d).

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33 U.S.C. § 3707

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110