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33 U.S.C. § 883a — Surveys and other activities
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To provide charts and related information for the safe navigation of marine and air commerce, and to provide basic data for engineering and scientific purposes and for other commercial and industrial needs, the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized to conduct the following activities:
(1) Hydrographic and topographic surveys;
(2) Tide and current observations;
(3) Geodetic-control surveys;
(4) Field surveys for aeronautical charts;
(5) Geomagnetic, seismological, gravity, and related geophysical measurements and investigations, and observations for the determination of variation in latitude and longitude.
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To provide charts and related information for the safe navigation of marine and air commerce, and to provide basic data for engineering and scientific purposes and for other commercial and industrial needs, the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized to conduct the following activities:
(1) Hydrographic and topographic surveys;
(2) Tide and current observations;
(3) Geodetic-control surveys;
(4) Field surveys for aeronautical charts;
(5) Geomagnetic, seismological, gravity, and related geophysical measurements and investigations, and observations for the determination of variation in latitude and longitude.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(b) [title II], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–50, 2681–83, which authorized in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 250 commissioned officers on the active list as of September 30, 1999, was from title II of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:
Pub. L. 105–119, title II, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2477.
Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(a) [title II], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009, 3009–37.
Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title II], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–27; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.
Pub. L. 103–317, title II, Aug. 26, 1994, 108 Stat. 1741.
Pub. L. 103–121, title II, Oct. 27, 1993, 107 Stat. 1170.
Pub. L. 102–395, title II, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1849.
Pub. L. 102–140, title II, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 799.
Pub. L. 101–515, title I, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2104.
Pub. L. 101–162, title I, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 992.
Pub. L. 100–459, title I, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2190.
Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(a) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329, 1329–4.
Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title I], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–42, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title I], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–42.
Pub. L. 99–180, title I, Dec. 13, 1985, 99 Stat. 1138.
Pub. L. 98–411, title I, Aug. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 1548.
Pub. L. 98–166, title I, § 101, Nov. 28, 1983, 97 Stat. 1074.
Pub. L. 97–377, title I, § 101(d), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1867, 1869.
Pub. L. 97–92, § 101(h) [incorporating H.R
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**(a)** It is the sense of Congress that each service or thing of value provided by an agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) to a person (except a person on official business of the United States Government) is to be self-sustaining to the extent possible.
**(b)** The head of each agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) may prescribe regulations establishing the charge for a service or thing of value provided by the agency. Regulations prescribed by the heads of executive agencies are subject to policies prescribed by the President and shall be as uniform as practicable. Each charge shall be—
(1) fair; and
(2) based on—
(A) the costs to the Government;
(B) the value of the service or thing to the recipient;
(C) public policy or interest served; and
(D) other relevant facts.
**(c)** This section does not affect a law of the United States—
(1) prohibiting the determination and collection of charges and the disposition of those charges; and
(2) prescribing bases for determining charges, but a charge may be redetermined under this section consistent with the prescribed bases.
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**(a) Promulgation of regulations**
(1) **Authority** — The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and, with respect to enforcement measures, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, may promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the United States international obligations under the North Pacific Fisheries Convention and this chapter, including recommendations and decisions adopted by the Commission.
(2) **Regulations of straddling stocks** — In the implementation of a measure adopted by the Commission that would govern a straddling stock under the authority of a Council, any regulation promulgated by the Secretary to implement such measure within the exclusive economic zone shall be approved by such Council.
**(b) Rule of construction** Regulations promulgated under subsection (a) shall be applicable only to a person or a fishing vessel that is or has engaged in fishing activities, or fisheries resources covered by the North Pacific Fisheries Convention under this chapter.
**(c) Additional authority** The Secretary may conduct, and may request and utilize on a reimbursed or nonreimbursed basis the assistance, services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of other Federal departments and agencies in—
(1) scientific, research, and other programs under this chapter;
(2) fishing operations and biological experiments for purposes of scientific investigation or other purposes necessary to implement the North Pacific Fisheries Convention;
(3) the collection, utilization, and disclosure of such information as may be necessary to implement the North Pacific Fisheries Convention, subject to sections 552 and 552a of title 5 and section 402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ([1
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The President of the United States is authorized to designate and empower the head of any department or agency in the executive branch, or any official thereof who is required to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to perform without approval, ratification, or other action by the President (1) any function which is vested in the President by law, or (2) any function which such officer is required or authorized by law to perform only with or subject to the approval, ratification, or other action of the President: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall relieve the President of his responsibility in office for the acts of any such head or other official designated by him to perform such functions. Such designation and authorization shall be in writing, shall be published in the Federal Register, shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as the President may deem advisable, and shall be revocable at any time by the President in whole or in part.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Jan. 31, 1925, ch. 121, 43 Stat. 802, related to seismological investigations. See [section 883a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section883a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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### Statutory Notes
Section 881, R.S. § 4681, related to authority of the President to order surveys of coasts of the United States. See [section 883a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section883a&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 882, R.S. § 4682, related to additional authority to order surveys beyond twenty-league limit. See [section 883a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section883a&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 883, R.S. §§ 4683, 4684, related to mode of conducting surveys generally. See sections 883a and 883b of this title.
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In this subchapter:
(1) **Administrator** — The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(2) **Administration** — The term “Administration” means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(3) **Hydrographic data** — The term “hydrographic data” means information that—
(A) is acquired through—
(i) hydrographic, bathymetric, photogrammetric, lidar, radar, remote sensing, or shoreline and other ocean- and coastal-related surveying;
(ii) geodetic, geospatial, or geomagnetic measurements;
(iii) tide, water level, and current observations; or
(iv) other methods; and
(B) is used in providing hydrographic services.
(4) **Hydrographic services** — The term “hydrographic services” means—
(A) the management, maintenance, interpretation, certification, and dissemination of bathymetric, hydrographic, shoreline, geodetic, geospatial, geomagnetic, and tide, water level, and current information, including the production of nautical charts, nautical information databases, hydrodynamic forecast and datum transformation models, and other products derived from hydrographic data;
(B) the development of nautical information systems; and
(C) related activities.
(5) **Coast and Geodetic Survey Act** — The term “Coast and Geodetic Survey Act” means the Act entitled “An Act to define the functions and duties of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes”, approved August 6, 1947 ([33 U.S.C. 883a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section883a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
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**(a) Military.—** The Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary of Transportation may waive this subchapter with respect to cost-plus-a-fixed fee and other cost-type contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the Federal Government and with respect to contracts for manufacturing, producing, furnishing, constructing, altering, repairing, processing, or assembling vessels, aircraft, munitions, materiel, or supplies for the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard, respectively, regardless of the terms of the contracts as to payment or title.
**(b) Transportation.—** The Secretary of Transportation may waive this subchapter with respect to contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of vessels when the contract is made under sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31 or subtitle V of title 46, regardless of the terms of the contracts as to payment or title.
**(c) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—** The Secretary of Commerce may waive this subchapter with respect to contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of vessels, regardless of the terms of the contracts as to payment or title, when the contract is made under the Act entitled “An Act to define the functions and duties of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes”, approved August 6, 1947 ([33 U.S.C. 883a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section883a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 883a
Pub. L. 115–31, div. B, title I, § 104, May 5, 2017, 131
Stat. 191.
Pub. L. 114–113, div. B, title I, § 104, Dec. 18, 2015, 129
Stat. 2294.
Pub. L. 113–235, div. B, title I, § 104, Dec. 16, 2014, 128
Stat. 2181.
Pub. L. 113–76, div. B, title I, § 104, Jan. 17, 2014, 128
Stat. 51.
Pub. L. 113–6, div. B, title I, § 105(b), Mar. 26, 2013, 127
Stat. 242.
§ 878b. Safety and health regulations for sci-
entific and occupational diving
On and after March 11, 2009, the Secretary of
Commerce is permitted to prescribe and enforce
standards or regulations affecting safety and
health in the context of scientific and occupa-
tional diving within the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
(Pub. L. 111–8, div. B, title I, § 106, Mar. 11, 2009,
123 Stat. 568.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Department of
Commerce Appropriations Act, 2009, which is title I of
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2009, which is div. B of the Omni-
bus Appropriations Act, 2009.
SIMILAR PROVISIONS
Provisions similar to those in this section were con-
tained in the following prior appropriation act:
Pub. L. 110–161, div. B, title I, § 110, Dec. 26, 2007, 121
Stat. 1893.
SUBCHAPTER II—SURVEYS
§§ 881 to 883. Repealed. Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504,
§ 10(2)–(5), 61 Stat. 788
Section 881, R.S. § 4681, related to authority of the
President to order surveys of coasts of the United
States. See section 883a of this title.
Section 882, R.S. § 4682, related to additional author-
ity to order surveys beyond twenty-league limit. See
section 883a of this title.
Section 883, R.S. §§ 4683, 4684, related to mode of con-
ducting surveys generally. See sections 883a
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