Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§4105 Reports on Unmanned Maritime Systems and Usage for Mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Title 33 › Chapter 54— COMMERCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH OCEAN TECHNOLOGY › § 4105

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must send Congress a report on using unmanned maritime systems for the Administration’s mission. The first report is due not later than one year after December 21, 2018, and then every 4 years. Each report must list current systems, summarize the data they returned and the benefits, and give a prioritized list of data needs that unmanned systems could meet plus the commercial systems that can collect those data. "Appropriate committees" means the Senate Committees on Appropriations; Armed Services; and Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committees on Appropriations; Armed Services; Natural Resources; and Science, Space, and Technology.

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Title 33, §4105

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(a)In carrying out this chapter, the Administrator shall, not later than one year after December 21, 2018, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the usage of unmanned maritime systems for the mission of the Administration.

(b)Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall include, for the period covered by the report, the following:

(1)An inventory of current unmanned maritime systems used by programs of the Administration, a summary of the data they have returned, and the benefits realized from having such data.

(2)A prioritized list of data requirements of the Administration that could be met with unmanned maritime systems, and the commercially available unmanned maritime systems with the operational capabilities to collect such data.

(c)In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—

(1)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and

(2)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 4105

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60