PUBLIC LAW 102-555 —OCT. 28, 1992 106 STAT. 4167 (A) is mutually acceptable to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defense for the period covering the development and operation of Landsat 7; and (B) provides for total funding responsibility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defense, respectively, to be approximately equal to the funding responsibility of the other as spread across the development and operational life of Landsat 7; (3) specify that any improvements over the Landsat 6 functional equivalent capability for Landsat 7 will be funded by a specific sponsoring agency or agencies, in a manner agreed to by the Landsat IVogram Management, if the required funding exceeds the baseline funding profile required by paragraph (2), and that additional improvements will be sought only if the improvements will not jeopardize data continuity; and (4) provide for a technology demonstration program whose objective shall be the demonstration of advanced land remote sensing technologies that may potentially yield a system which is less expensive to build and operate, and more responsive to data users, than is the current Landsat system. (c) RESPONSIBILITIES.— The Landsat Program Management shall be responsible for— (1) Landsat 7 procurement, launch, and operations; (2) ensuring that the operation oi the Landsat system is responsive to the broad interests of the civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign users of the Landsat system; (3) ensuring that all unenhanced Landsat data remain unclassified and that, except as provided in section 506(a) and (b), no restrictions are placed on the availability of imenhanced data; (4) ensuring that land remote sensing data of high priority locations will be acquired by the Landsat 7 system as required to meet the needs of the United States Global Change Research Program, as established in the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and to meet the needs of national security users; (5) Landsat data responsibilities pursuant to this Act; (6) oversight of Landsat contracts entered into under sections 102 and 103; (7) coordination of a technology demonstration program, pursuant to section 303; and (8) ensuring that copies of data acquired by the Landsat system are provided to the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. (d) AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT. —The Landsat Program Management may, subject to appropriations and only under the existing contract authority of the United States Government agencies that compose the Landsat Program Management, enter into contracts with the private sector for services such as, but not limited to, satellite operations and data preprocessing. (e) LANDSAT ADVISORY PROCESS. — (1) ESTABLISHMENT. —The Landsat Program Management shall seek impartial advice and comments regarding the status, effectiveness, and operation of the Landsat system, using existing advisory committees and other appropriate mechanisms. Such advice shall be sought from individuals who represent—
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