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42 U.S.C. § 10371 — Water prediction and forecasting
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**(a) National Water Center**
(1) **Establishment**
(A) *In general* — The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall establish a center—
(i) to serve as the research and operational center of excellence for hydrologic analyses, forecasting, and related decision support services within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service; and
(ii) to facilitate collaboration across Federal and State departments and agencies, academia, and the private sector on matters relating to water resources.
(B) *Designation* — The center established under subparagraph (A) shall be known as the “National Water Center”.
(2) **Functions** — The functions of the National Water Center shall include the following:
(A) Improving understanding of water resources, stakeholder needs regarding water resources, and identifying science and services gaps relating to water resources.
(B) Developing and implementing advanced water resources modeling capabilities.
(C) Facilitating the transition of hydrologic research into operations.
(D) Delivering analyses, forecasts, and inundation information and guidance for all hydrologic events in the United States, including flash flooding, riverine flooding, and water resources outlooks.
(E) In coordination with warning coordination meteorologists, providing decision-support services to inform emergency management and water resources decisions.
**(b) National instructions**
(1) **In general** — Not later than one year after December 31, 2020, the Under Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Weather Service, shall make public an operations and services policy directive for the National Water Center.
(2) **Contents** — The directive required by paragraph (1)
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**(a) National Water Center**
(1) **Establishment**
(A) *In general* — The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall establish a center—
(i) to serve as the research and operational center of excellence for hydrologic analyses, forecasting, and related decision support services within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service; and
(ii) to facilitate collaboration across Federal and State departments and agencies, academia, and the private sector on matters relating to water resources.
(B) *Designation* — The center established under subparagraph (A) shall be known as the “National Water Center”.
(2) **Functions** — The functions of the National Water Center shall include the following:
(A) Improving understanding of water resources, stakeholder needs regarding water resources, and identifying science and services gaps relating to water resources.
(B) Developing and implementing advanced water resources modeling capabilities.
(C) Facilitating the transition of hydrologic research into operations.
(D) Delivering analyses, forecasts, and inundation information and guidance for all hydrologic events in the United States, including flash flooding, riverine flooding, and water resources outlooks.
(E) In coordination with warning coordination meteorologists, providing decision-support services to inform emergency management and water resources decisions.
**(b) National instructions**
(1) **In general** — Not later than one year after December 31, 2020, the Under Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Weather Service, shall make public an operations and services policy directive for the National Water Center.
(2) **Contents** — The directive required by paragraph (1) shall include national instructions to perform the functions of the National Water Center, including the following:
(A) Operational staff responsibilities.
(B) Guidelines for content, format, and provision of hydrologic and inundation products developed by the National Water Center.
(C) Procedures for cooperation and coordination between the National Water Center, the National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service River Forecast Centers, and National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices.
**(c) Total water prediction** The Under Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office of Water Prediction of the National Weather Service, shall—
(1) initiate and lead research and development activities to develop operational water resource prediction and related decision support products;
(2) collaborate with, and provide decision support regarding total water prediction to—
(A) the relevant Federal agencies represented on the National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability and the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction;
(B) State water resource agencies; and
(C) State and local emergency management agencies; and
(3) in carrying out the responsibilities described in paragraphs (1) and (2), collaboratively develop capabilities necessary for total water predictive capacity, including observations, modeling, data management, supercomputing, social science, and communications.
**(d) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities under this section amounts as follows:
(1) $44,500,000 for fiscal year 2021.
(2) $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
(3) $45,500,000 for fiscal year 2023.
(4) $46,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
**(e) Derivation of funds** Funds to carry out this section shall be derived from amounts authorized to be appropriated to the National Weather Service and the National Ocean Service that are enacted after December 31, 2020.
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The purposes of this chapter are—
(1) to establish and sustain a national integrated System of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing systems, comprised of Federal and non-Federal components coordinated at the national level by the Council and at the regional level by a network of regional coastal observing systems, and that includes in situ, remote, and other coastal and ocean observation and modeling capabilities, technologies, data management systems, communication systems, and product development systems, and is designed to address regional and national needs for ocean and coastal information, to gather specific data on key ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes variables, and to ensure timely and sustained dissemination and availability of these data—
(A) to the public;
(B) to support national defense, search and rescue operations, marine commerce, navigation safety, weather, climate, and marine forecasting, energy siting and production, economic development, ecosystem-based marine, coastal, and Great Lakes resource management, public safety, and public outreach and education;
(C) to promote greater public awareness and stewardship of the Nation’s ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and the general public welfare;
(D) to provide easy access to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes data and promote data sharing between Federal and non-Federal sources and promote public data sharing;
(E) to enable advances in scientific understanding to support the sustainable use, conservation, management, and understanding of healthy ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources to ensure the Nation can respond to opportunities to enhance food, economic, and national security; and
(F) to monitor and model changes in the oceans and Great Lakes, including with respect to c
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 10369
the appropriate committees of Congress a report
that provides a detailed assessment of—
(1) the current availability of water re-
sources in the United States, including—
(A) historic trends and annual updates of
river basin inflows and outflows;
(B) surface water storage;
(C) groundwater reserves; and
(D) estimates of undeveloped potential re-
sources (including saline and brackish water
and wastewater);
(2) significant trends affecting water avail-
ability, including each documented or pro-
jected impact to the availability of water as a
result of global climate change;
(3) the withdrawal and use of surface water
and groundwater by various sectors, includ-
ing—
(A) the agricultural sector;
(B) municipalities;
(C) the industrial sector;
(D) thermoelectric power generators; and
(E) hydroelectric power generators;
(4) significant trends relating to each water
use sector, including significant changes in
water use due to the development of new en-
ergy supplies;
(5) significant water use conflicts or short-
ages that have occurred or are occurring; and
(6) each factor that has caused, or is causing,
a conflict or shortage described in paragraph
(5).
(e) Authorization of appropriations
(1) In general
There is authorized to be appropriated to
carry
out
subsections
(a),
(b),
and
(d)
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through
2023, to remain available until expended.
(2) Grant program
There is authorized to be appropriated to
carry out subsection (c) $12,500,000 for the pe-
riod of fiscal years 2009 through 2013, to re-
main available until expended.
(Pub. L. 111–11, title IX, § 9508, Mar. 30, 2009, 123
Stat. 1343.)
§ 10369. Research agreement authority
The Secretary may ente
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