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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-685—NOV. 17, 1988

102 STAT. 4101

mental data activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. SKC. 410. The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and appropriate non-Federal organizations, shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technolc^y of the House of Representatives a plan to construct and operate a worldwide system of ground-based remote sensors to monitor the stratospheric levels of chemicals which can afTect the level of ozone in the stratosphere and to use these results to improve our understanding of the possible changes in stratospheric ozone that are the consequence of human activities. The plan shall include time lines for construction and operation of the system, a description of the roles of the National ()ceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, non-Federal organizations, other nations, and international organizations in constructing and operating the system, and estimates of the costs to construct and operate the system. The plan shall be submitted not later than July 1, 1989. SEC. 411. It is the sense of the Congress that the global change program represents a significant opportunity for international cooperation and that it is in the best interest of the United States to maintain a separate civilian polar meteorological satellite program to facilitate data sharing with foreign participants in the global change program. SEC. 412. None of the funds authorized under this title shall be used to move from Kansas City, Missouri, the National Weather Service Training Center currently located at Kansas City, nor to close such Center, nor to contract out any function or activity performed by Federal employees as of the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 413. For the purposes of this title, the term— (1) "Act of 1890" means the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency and reduce the expenses of the Signal Corps of the Army, and to transfer the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture", approved October 1, 1890 (26 Stat. 653); and (2) "Act of 1947" 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 et seq.). SEC. 414. (a)(1) The National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall maintain an updated data base describing the acid content in precipitation in the United States, using information from Federal acid precipitation monitorii^ sites. (2) Such data shall be available to interested parties by Weather Service Forecast Offices in the National Weather Service, or through such other facilities or means as the Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall direct, for those areas of the United States where and at such time as such information is presently available, within 120 days after the date of the enactment of t h ^ Act. (3) Where other Federal agencies collect such data in the course of carrying out their statutory missions, the heads of those agencies and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Pollution. 42 USC 7454 note.

Missouri.

Environmental protection. 42 USC 8906.