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(A) consider issues relating to data owner-
ship; and 
(B) ensure that Indigenous, subsistence, 
and fishing communities retain any specific 
rights or ownership of data provided to Federal 
agencies. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Ad-
ministrator shall submit to Congress a report identi-
fying potential opportunities to encourage voluntary 
actions and partnerships between the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration and non-Fed-
eral partners to increase and enhance data collec-
tion. 
(2) OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTNERSHIP.—The 
opportunities described in paragraph (1) may in-
clude opportunities that can be pursued in conjunc-
tion with Federal permits, leases, and other actions 
requiring Federal approval or funding, such as 
partnering with companies to acquire and share 
bathymetric data or supplying fishermen with sen-
sors that can collect data through fishing gear. 
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SEC. 1215. NATIONAL SEA LEVEL RISE RISK ANALYSIS. 
(a) PURPOSES.—The Administrator shall establish a 
National Coastal Data Information System to— 
(1) combine existing observations, modeling, 
predictions, products and services into an integrated 
framework for producing and maintaining authori-
tative and timely data, maps and information serv-
ices which quantify and communicate coastal flood 
risk to the States; 
(2) develop and strengthen partnerships with 
organizations that represent end users within coastal 
communities, including other Federal agencies, to 
better assess information gaps and needs relating to 
the risk posed by the rising sea level; and 
(3) produce new information products and serv-
ices, targeted to end-user needs, that allow coastal 
communities across the United States to plan for 
present and future coastal flood risk. 
(b) REPORT.—The Administrator shall, not less than 
180 days after the date of enactment of this section and 
every 3 years thereafter, provide the Committee on Nat-
ural Resources of the House of Representatives with a re-
port containing holistic analysis of the need to expand ob-
servations, modeling, predictions, products and services 
to— 
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(1) improve the understanding of changing 
coastal flood risk, including the impacts of sea level 
rise; and 
(2) track and report how observed rates of sea 
level rise compare to the sea level rise predictions 
published within the National Climate Assessments. 
Subtitle C—Digital Coast 
SEC. 1221. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle: 
(1) COASTAL REGION.—The term ‘‘coastal re-
gion’’ means the area of United States waters ex-
tending inland from the shoreline to include coastal 
watersheds and seaward to the territorial sea. 
(2) 
COASTAL
STATE.—The 
term 
‘‘coastal 
State’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘coastal 
state’’ in section 304 of the Coastal Zone Manage-
ment Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453). 
(3) 
FEDERAL
GEOGRAPHIC
DATA
COM-
MITTEE.—The term ‘‘Federal Geographic Data 
Committee’’ means the interagency committee that 
promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, 
and dissemination of geospatial data on a national 
basis. 
(4) 
REMOTE
SENSING
AND
OTHER 
GEOSPATIAL.—The term ‘‘remote sensing and other 
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geospatial’’ means collecting, storing, retrieving, or 
disseminating graphical or digital data depicting 
natural or manmade physical features, phenomena, 
or boundaries of the Earth and any information re-
lated thereto, including surveys, maps, charts, sat-
ellite and airborne remote sensing data, images, 
LiDAR, and services performed by professionals 
such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hydrog-
raphers, geodesists, cartographers, and other such 
services. 
SEC. 1222. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIGITAL COAST. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish a program for the provision of an enabling 
platform that integrates geospatial data, decision- 
support tools, training, and best practices to address 
coastal management issues and needs. Under the 
program, the Administrator shall strive to enhance 
resilient communities, ecosystem values, and coastal 
economic growth and development by helping com-
munities address their issues, needs, and challenges 
through cost-effective and participatory solutions. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The program established 
under paragraph (1) shall be known as the ‘‘Digital 
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Coast’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘pro-
gram’’). 
(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out the 
program, the Administrator shall ensure that the program 
provides data integration, tool development, training, doc-
umentation, dissemination, and archiving by— 
(1) making data and resulting integrated prod-
ucts developed under this section readily accessible 
via the Digital Coast internet website of the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the 
GeoPlatform.gov and data.gov internet websites, and 
such other information distribution technologies as 
the Administrator considers appropriate; 
(2) developing decision-support tools that use 
and display resulting integrated data and provide 
training on use of such tools; 
(3) documenting such data to Federal Geo-
graphic Data Committee standards; and 
(4) archiving all raw data acquired under this 
title at the appropriate National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration data center or such other 
Federal data center as the Administrator considers 
appropriate. 
(c) COORDINATION.—The Administrator shall coordi-
nate the activities carried out under the program to opti-
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