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44 U.S.C. § 1307 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: nautical products, sale and distribution

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44 U.S.C. § 1307 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: nautical products, sale and distribution

**(a)** (1) All nautical products created or published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall be sold at such prices as the Secretary of Commerce shall establish annually, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. The Secretary shall publish annually the prices at which nautical products are sold to the public. (2) (A) Subject to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the prices of nautical products may be increased over a period of not less than three years after the date of enactment of this section so as to recover all costs attributable to data base management, compilation, printing, and distribution of such products. The prices of such products may be maintained to recover all such costs thereafter. (B) The Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall adjust the prices of nautical products in such manner as is necessary to avoid any adverse impact on marine safety attributable to the prices specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. (3) This section shall not be construed to require the establishment of any price for a nautical product where, in the judgment of the Secretary, furnishing of that product to a recipient is a reasonable exchange for voluntary contribution of information by the recipient to a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (4) Prices established under this section may not include costs attributable to the acquisition or processing of nautical data. **(b)** Fees collected from the sale of nautical products under this section and from any licensing of such products which is permitted under any other provision of law shall be deposited in the miscellaneous receipts fund of the United States Treasury. **(c)** The Secretary may distribute nautical p

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**(a)** (1) All nautical products created or published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall be sold at such prices as the Secretary of Commerce shall establish annually, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. The Secretary shall publish annually the prices at which nautical products are sold to the public. (2) (A) Subject to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the prices of nautical products may be increased over a period of not less than three years after the date of enactment of this section so as to recover all costs attributable to data base management, compilation, printing, and distribution of such products. The prices of such products may be maintained to recover all such costs thereafter. (B) The Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall adjust the prices of nautical products in such manner as is necessary to avoid any adverse impact on marine safety attributable to the prices specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. (3) This section shall not be construed to require the establishment of any price for a nautical product where, in the judgment of the Secretary, furnishing of that product to a recipient is a reasonable exchange for voluntary contribution of information by the recipient to a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (4) Prices established under this section may not include costs attributable to the acquisition or processing of nautical data. **(b)** Fees collected from the sale of nautical products under this section and from any licensing of such products which is permitted under any other provision of law shall be deposited in the miscellaneous receipts fund of the United States Treasury. **(c)** The Secretary may distribute nautical products— (1) without charge to each foreign government or international organization with which the Secretary or a Federal department or agency has an agreement for exchange of these products without cost; and (2) at prices which the Secretary establishes, to the departments and officers of the United States requiring them for official use. **(d)** The fees provided for in this section are for the purpose of reimbursing the United States Government for the costs of creating, publishing or distributing nautical products of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The collection of fees authorized by this section shall not alter or expand any duty or liability of the United States under existing law for the performance of functions for which fees are collected, nor shall the collection of fees constitute an express or implied undertaking by the United States to perform any activity in a certain manner. **(e)** For purposes of this section, the term “nautical products” includes all nautical charts, tide and tidal current tables, tidal current charts, coast pilots, water level products, and associated data bases which are created or published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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49 U.S.C. § 106 — Federal Aviation Administration

**(a) In General.—** The Federal Aviation Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. **(b) Administration Leadership.—** (1) **Administrator.—** (A) *In general.—* — The head of the Administration is the Administrator, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (B) *Qualifications.—* — The Administrator shall— (i) be a citizen of the United States; (ii) not be an active duty member of the Armed Forces; (iii) not have retired from the Armed Forces within the 7 years preceding nomination; and (iv) have experience in organizational management and a field directly related to aviation. (C) *Fitness.—* — In appointing an individual as Administrator, the President shall consider the fitness of such individual to carry out efficiently the duties and powers of the office. (D) *Term of office.—* — The term of office for any individual appointed as Administrator shall be 5 years. (E) *Reporting chain.—* — Except as provided in subsection (f) or in other provisions of law, the Administrator reports directly to the Secretary of Transportation. (2) **Deputy administrator.—** (A) *In general.—* — The Administrator has a Deputy Administrator, who shall be appointed by the President. (B) *Qualifications.—* — The Deputy Administrator shall— (i) be a citizen of the United States; and (ii) have experience in organizational management and a field directly related to aviation. (C) *Fitness.—* — In appointing an individual as Deputy Administrator, the President shall consider the fitness of the individual to carry out efficiently the duties and powers of the office, including the duty to act for the Administrator when the Administrator is absent or unable to s

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15 U.S.C. § 1534 — Assessment of fees for access to environmental data

**(a) Basis of assessment** Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Secretary is authorized to assess fees, based on fair market value, for access to environmental data and information and products derived therefrom collected and/or archived by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. **(b) Eligible recipients; waiver of fees in cases of foreign governments and international organizations** (1) The Secretary shall provide data, information, and products described in subsection (a) to Federal, State, and local government agencies, to universities, and to other nonprofit institutions at the cost of reproduction and transmission, if such data, information, and products are to be used for research and not for commercial purposes. (2) The Secretary shall waive the assessment of fees under subsection (a) as necessary to continue to provide data, information, or products to foreign governments and international organizations on a basis of exchanging such data, information, and products or as otherwise provided by international agreement. (3) The Secretary shall waive the assessment of fees authorized by subsection (a) as necessary to continue to provide weather warnings, watches, and similar products and services essential to the mission of the National Oceanic Atmospheric 11 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “and”. Administration. **(c) Publication of fee schedules in Federal Register; initial schedule effective for three-year period** The initial schedule of any fees assessed under this section, and any subsequent amendment to such schedule, shall be published by the Secretary in the Federal Register at least 30 days before such fees will take effect. The initial schedule shall remain in effect without amendment for the three-year peri

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33 U.S.C. § 892b — Quality assurance program

**(a) Definition** For purposes of this section, the term “hydrographic product” means any publicly or commercially available product or service produced or disseminated by a non-Federal entity that includes or displays hydrographic data. **(b) Program** (1) **In general** — The Administrator— (A) by not later than 2 years after December 19, 2002, shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, develop and implement a quality assurance program that is equally available to all applicants, under which the Administrator may certify hydrographic products that satisfy the standards promulgated by the Administrator under [section 892a(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section892a/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim); (B) may authorize the use of the emblem or any trademark of the Administration on a hydrographic product certified under subparagraph (A); and (C) may charge a fee for such certification and use. (2) **Limitation on fee amount** — Any fee under paragraph (1)(C) shall not exceed the costs of conducting the quality assurance testing, evaluation, or studies necessary to determine whether the hydrographic product satisfies the standards adopted under [section 892a(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section892a/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim), including the cost of administering such a program. **(c) Limitation on liability** The Government of the United States shall not be liable for any negligence by a person that produces hydrographic products certified under this section. **(d) Hydrographic Services Account** (1) **Establishment** — There is established in the Treasury a separate account, which shall be known as the “Hydrographic Services Account”. (

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49 U.S.C. § 44721 — Aeronautical charts and related products and services

**(a) Publication.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may arrange for the publication of aeronautical maps and charts necessary for the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in air navigation, using the facilities and assistance of departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government as far as practicable. (2) **Navigation routes.—** — In carrying out paragraph (1), the Administrator shall update and arrange for the publication of clearly defined routes for navigating through a complex terminal airspace area and to and from an airport located in such an area, if the Administrator decides that publication of the routes would promote safety in air navigation. The routes shall be developed in consultation with pilots and other users of affected airports and shall be for the optional use of pilots operating under visual flight rules. **(b) Indemnification.—** The Government shall make an agreement to indemnify any person that publishes a map or chart for use in aeronautics from any part of a claim arising out of the depiction by the person on the map or chart of a defective or deficient flight procedure or airway if the flight procedure or airway was— (1) prescribed by the Administrator; (2) depicted accurately on the map or chart; and (3) not obviously defective or deficient. **(c) Authority of Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography.—** Effective October 1, 2000, the Administrator is vested with and shall exercise the functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Commerce and other officers of the Department of Commerce that relate to the Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography to provide aeronautical charts and related products and services for the safe and efficient navi

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44 U.S.C. § 1307 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-

Page 45 TITLE 44—PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS § 1307 1 See Transfer of Functions note below. Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted ‘‘Director of the Government Publishing Office’’ for ‘‘Public Printer’’ in last par. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries UNAVAILABILITY OF DEPARTMENT FUNDS TO PRODUCE PART 2 OF ANNUAL REPORT Funds available to Department of Agriculture not to be used to produce part 2 of annual report of Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture), see title I of Pub. L. 103–111, 107 Stat. 1048, set out as a note under section 2207 of Title 7, Agriculture. § 1302. Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications The Secretary of Agriculture may cause to be printed the number of copies of the monthly crop report, and of other reports and bulletins of not more than one hundred octavo pages, he considers necessary. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1266.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 213 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 89, 28 Stat. 622). This section incorporates only the first clause of the second sentence of the second paragraph of former sec- tion 213. The balance of section 213 will be found in sec- tions 1102, 1116, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1336. § 1303. American Historical Association: report In addition to the usual number of the report of the American Historical Association, five thousand five hundred copies shall be printed: one thousand for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Representatives, one thousand five hundred for distribution by the Association and the Smithsonian Institution, and one thousand copies for the use of the Association. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1266.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES B

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