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33 U.S.C. § 3502 — Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping
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**(a) In general** The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the National Ocean Exploration Act,11 See References in Text note below. shall use the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping in existence as of the date of the enactment of such Act to implement [section 3501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Membership** The Working Group shall be comprised of senior-level representatives from Federal agencies with ocean and coastal mapping and surveying responsibilities. Membership shall include senior-level representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Navy, the United States Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the Department of the Interior, the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks of the Department of the Interior, the National Science Foundation, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other appropriate Federal agencies involved in ocean and coastal mapping.
**(c) Co-Chairs** The Working Group shall be co-chaired by one representative from each of the following:
(1) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(2) The Department of the Interior.
**(d) Subordinate groups** The co-chairs may establish such permanent or temporary subordinate groups as determined appropriate by the Working Group.
**(e) Meetings** The Working Group shall meet on a quarterly basis, but each su
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**(a) In general** The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the National Ocean Exploration Act,11 See References in Text note below. shall use the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping in existence as of the date of the enactment of such Act to implement [section 3501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Membership** The Working Group shall be comprised of senior-level representatives from Federal agencies with ocean and coastal mapping and surveying responsibilities. Membership shall include senior-level representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Navy, the United States Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the Department of the Interior, the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks of the Department of the Interior, the National Science Foundation, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other appropriate Federal agencies involved in ocean and coastal mapping.
**(c) Co-Chairs** The Working Group shall be co-chaired by one representative from each of the following:
(1) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(2) The Department of the Interior.
**(d) Subordinate groups** The co-chairs may establish such permanent or temporary subordinate groups as determined appropriate by the Working Group.
**(e) Meetings** The Working Group shall meet on a quarterly basis, but each subordinate group shall meet on an as-needed basis.
**(f) Coordination** The Working Group shall coordinate activities when appropriate, with—
(1) other Federal efforts;
(2) international mapping activities;
(3) coastal States;
(4) coastal Indian Tribes;
(5) data acquisition and user groups through workshops, partnerships, and other appropriate mechanisms; and
(6) representatives of nongovernmental entities.
**(g) Support functions** The Working Group shall support the National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council established under section 5405 of the National Ocean Exploration Act 1 and the Ocean Science and Technology Subcommittee of the Ocean Policy Committee established under [section 8932(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section8932/c&num=0&edition=prelim) on ocean mapping activities and associated technology development across the Federal Government, State governments, coastal Indian Tribes, private industry, nongovernmental organizations, and academia.
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**(a) Establishment** The President shall establish a council, to be known as the “National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council” (in this section referred to as the “Council”).
**(b) Purpose** The Council shall—
(1) update national priorities for ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization; and
(2) coordinate and facilitate activities to advance those priorities.
**(c) Reporting** The Council shall report to the Ocean Science and Technology Subcommittee of the Ocean Policy Committee established under [section 8932(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section8932/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Membership** The Council shall be composed of senior-level representatives from the appropriate Federal agencies.
**(e) Co-Chairs** The Council shall be co-chaired by—
(1) two senior-level representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(2) one senior-level representative from the Department of the Interior.
**(f) Duties** The Council shall—
(1) set national ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization priorities and strategies;
(2) cultivate and facilitate transparent and sustained partnerships among Federal and State agencies, Indian Tribes, private industry, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to conduct ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization activities and related technology development;
(3) coordinate improved processes for data compilation, management, access, synthesis, and visualization with respect to ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization, with a focus on building on existing ocean data management systems and with appropriate safeguards on the public accessibility of data to protect national security equities, as appropriate;
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**(a) In general** The President, in coordination with the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping under [section 3502 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3502&num=0&edition=prelim) and affected coastal states, shall establish and maintain a program to coordinate comprehensive Federal ocean and coastal mapping efforts for the Great Lakes and coastal state waters, the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf of the United States that—
(1) enhances ecosystem approaches in decisionmaking for natural resource and habitat management restoration and conservation, emergency response, and coastal resilience and adaptation;
(2) establishes research and mapping priorities;
(3) supports the siting of research and other platforms; and
(4) advances ocean and coastal science.
**(b) Program parameters** In maintaining such a program, the President, through the Working Group, shall—
(1) identify all Federal and federally-funded programs conducting shoreline delineation and ocean or coastal mapping, noting geographic coverage, frequency, spatial coverage, resolution, and subject matter focus of the data and location of data archives;
(2) facilitate cost-effective, cooperative mapping efforts that incorporate policies for contracting with non-governmental entities among all Federal agencies conducting ocean and coastal mapping and for leveraging existing Federal geospatial services capacities and contract vehicles for efficiencies, by increasing data sharing, developing appropriate data acquisition and metadata standards, and facilitating the interoperability of in situ data collection systems, data processing, archiving, and distribution of data products;
(3) facilitate the adapt
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**(a) In general** In addition to the amounts authorized by [section 892d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section892d&num=0&edition=prelim), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this chapter $45,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2028.
**(b) Joint ocean and coastal mapping centers** Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), the following amounts shall be used to carry out section 3504(c) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2028.
**(c) Ocean and coastal mapping Federal funding opportunity** Of amounts authorized pursuant to subsection (a), $20,000,000 is authorized to carry out [section 3504a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3504a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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In this chapter:
(1) **Administrator** — The term “Administrator’ ” 11 So in original. Closing single quotation mark probably should not appear. means the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(2) **Coastal state** — The term “coastal state” has the meaning given that term by [section 1453(4) of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1453/4&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Working Group** — The term “Working Group” means the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping under [section 3502 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3502&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **Exclusive economic zone** — The term “exclusive economic zone” means the exclusive economic zone of the United States established by Presidential Proclamation No. 5030, of March 10, 1983.
(5) **Ocean and coastal mapping** — The term “ocean and coastal mapping” means the acquisition, processing, management, maintenance, interpretation, certification, and dissemination of physical, biological, geological, chemical, and archaeological characteristics and boundaries of ocean and coastal areas, resources, and sea beds through the use of acoustics, satellites, aerial photogrammetry, light and imaging, direct sampling, and other mapping technologies.
(6) **Territorial sea** — The term “territorial sea” means the belt of sea measured from the baseline of the United States determined in accordance with international law, as set forth in Presidential Proclamation Number 5928, dated December 27, 1988.
(7) **Nongovernmental entities** — The term “nongovernmental entities” includes nongovernmental organizations, members of the academic community, and private sector organizations that p
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 3502
curity Affairs[,] the Assistant to the President for Do-
mestic Policy[,] the Assistant to the President for Eco-
nomic Policy[,] the Director of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy[,] the Chairman of the Council
on Environmental Quality[, and] the Deputy Assistant
to
the
President
for
Homeland
Security
and
Counterterrorism
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, I hereby direct the following:
SECTION 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States
to act boldly to safeguard our future prosperity, health,
and national security through ocean mapping, explo-
ration, and characterization. Data and information
about the ocean help to advance maritime commerce,
domestic seafood production, healthy and sustainable
fisheries, coastal resilience, energy production, tourism
and recreation, environmental protection, national and
homeland security, and other interests. Such activities
contribute more than $300 billion per year of economic
activity, 3 million jobs, and $129 billion in wages.
On March 10, 1983, President Reagan issued Proclama-
tion 5030 (Exclusive Economic Zone of the United
States of America) [16 U.S.C. 1453 note], which estab-
lished the United States Exclusive Economic Zone
(U.S. EEZ) to advance the development of ocean re-
sources and promote the protection of the marine envi-
ronment. With more than 13,000 miles of coastline and
3.4 million square nautical miles of ocean within our
territorial jurisdiction, our country’s EEZ is among the
largest in the world and is larger than the combined
land area of all 50 States. The U.S. EEZ contains a vast
array of underutilized, and likely many undiscovered
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