Bill > HR2189

Introduced Session

To require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a constituent-driven program to provide a digital information platform capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices and to support collection of priority coastal geospatial data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region, and for other purposes. This bill provides statutory authority for and revises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Digital Coast program. (The program currently exists under NOAA to provide data, tools, and training that communities use to manage their coastal resources.) NOAA must focus on filling data needs and gaps for critical coastal management issues and support continued improvement in existing efforts to coordinate the acquisition and integration of key data sets needed for coastal management. NOAA may enter into financial agreements and collect fees to carry out the program; enter into contracts with private sector entities as necessary to collect, process, and provide remote sensing and other geospatial data and products; and establish public tools that are capable of tracking ocean and Great Lakes economy data for each coastal state.

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Dutch Ruppersberger (D)*,  Charlie Crist (D),  Jenniffer González (R),  Jeff Van Drew (R),  Don Young (R), 

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 256. (on 11/26/2019)

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