§60303 Pilot Projects to Encourage Public Sector Applications

Summary

Creates a competitive grant program to fund pilot projects that use remote sensing and other geospatial data to help State, local, regional, and tribal agencies. Grants should favor projects that use commercial (or when needed, public) data, combine multiple geospatial sources in new ways, include non‑Federal money or in‑kind help, involve private companies that add value to raw data, and together show a broad set of public uses. The agency must also look for chances to help develop commercial uses of remote sensing and to help agencies apply these technologies for growth management. Grants may last no more than 3 years. Each grantee must send a report within 180 days after the project ends and hold at least one workshop within 180 days to share what they learned. The Administrator must create rules for applying, selecting, running the pilots, and for the required reports and workshops.