2014 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare (Sections 1 - 18445)
Chapter 159 - Space Exploration, Technology, and Science (Sections 18301 - 18445)
Subchapter VII - Space Science (Sections 18381 - 18388)
Sec. 18388 - Space weather
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 159 - SPACE EXPLORATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND SCIENCE SUBCHAPTER VII - SPACE SCIENCE Sec. 18388 - Space weather |
Contains | section 18388 |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 111-267, title VIII, §809, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2834. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 124 Stat. 2834 |
Public and Private Law | Public Law 111-267 |
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The Congress finds the following:
(1) Space weather events pose a significant threat to modern technological systems.
(2) The effects of severe space weather events on the electric power grid, telecommunications and entertainment satellites, airline communications during polar routes, and space-based position, navigation and timing systems could have significant societal, economic, national security, and health impacts.
(3) Earth and Space Observing satellites, such as the Advanced Composition Explorer, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, Polar Operational Environmental Satellites, and Defense Meteorological Satellites, provide crucial data necessary to predict space weather events.
(b) Action requiredThe Director of OSTP shall—
(1) improve the Nation's ability to prepare, avoid, mitigate, respond to, and recover from potentially devastating impacts of space weather events;
(2) coordinate the operational activities of the National Space Weather Program Council members, including the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency; and
(3) submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress within 180 days after October 11, 2010, that—
(A) details the current data sources, both space- and ground-based, that are necessary for space weather forecasting; and
(B) details the space- and ground-based systems that will be required to gather data necessary for space weather forecasting for the next 10 years.
(Pub. L. 111–267, title VIII, §809, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2834.)
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