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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§8906 Updated Data Base on Acid Content in Precipitation; New Monitoring Site Not Required

Title 42 › CHAPTER 97 — ACID PRECIPITATION PROGRAM AND CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY › SUBCHAPTER I — ACID PRECIPITATION › § 8906

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Weather Service must keep an up-to-date U.S. database of acid in precipitation, using data from federal monitoring sites. The information must be made available to the public through Weather Service Forecast Offices or other ways the Assistant Administrator chooses, for places and times where data exist, within 120 days after November 17, 1988. Agencies that collect such data must send it to the Service. No federal agency is required to start new monitoring sites.

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Title 42, §8906

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(a)(1)The National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall maintain an updated data base describing the acid content in precipitation in the United States, using information from Federal acid precipitation monitoring sites.
(2)Such data shall be available to interested parties by Weather Service Forecast Offices in the National Weather Service, or through such other facilities or means as the Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall direct, for those areas of the United States where and at such time as such information is presently available, within 120 days after November 17, 1988.
(3)Where other Federal agencies collect such data in the course of carrying out their statutory missions, the heads of those agencies and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall arrange for the transfer of such data to the National Weather Service.
(b)Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any Federal agency to establish any new acid precipitation monitoring site.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989, and not as part of the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

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42 U.S.C. § 8906

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102