Requires the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to: (1) conduct an analysis of requirements that are existing, or projected to exist by the year 2025, of Federal, State, and local regulators and resource managers for scientific data and information about the Nation's coastal and marine environment and the conditions and phenomena affecting that environment, including those relating to new and changing uses; (2) evaluate scientific research programs or activities in that environment, in light of the data and information requirements identified in the analysis, to determine whether the program or activity should be continued without change or restructured; and (3) recommend legislation on the basis of the analysis and evaluation.
Mandates a report to the Congress, with a draft submitted for comment to the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Comptroller General, and the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
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