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Committee, or any successor standard approved by 
the working group; and 
(2) the term ‘‘working group’’ means the inter-
agency climate and other global change data man-
agement working group established under section 
4633. 
SEC. 4633. INTERAGENCY CLIMATE AND OTHER GLOBAL 
CHANGE 
DATA 
MANAGEMENT 
WORKING 
GROUP. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall establish 
or designate an interagency climate and other global 
change data management working group to make rec-
ommendations for coordinating Federal climate and other 
global change data management and archiving activities. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The working group shall include 
the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, the Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration, the Secretary of Energy, 
the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the National 
Science Foundation, the Director of the United States Ge-
ological Survey, the Archivist of the United States, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, or their des-
ignees, and representatives of any other Federal agencies 
the President considers appropriate. 
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(c) REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the working group shall transmit 
a report to the Congress containing the elements described 
in subsection (d). Not later than 4 years after the initial 
report under this subsection, and at least once every 4 
years thereafter, the working group shall transmit reports 
updating the previous report. In preparing reports under 
this subsection, the working group shall consult with ex-
pected users of the data collected and archived by the Pro-
gram. 
(d) CONTENTS.—The reports and updates required 
under subsection (c) shall— 
(1) include recommendations for the establish-
ment, maintenance, and accessibility of a catalog 
identifying all available climate and other global 
change data sets; 
(2) identify climate and other global change 
data collections in danger of being lost and rec-
ommend actions to prevent such loss; 
(3) identify gaps in climate and other global 
change data and recommend actions to fill those 
gaps; 
(4) identify effective and compatible procedures 
for climate and other global change data collection, 
management, and retention and make recommenda-
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tions for ensuring their use by Federal agencies and 
other appropriate entities; 
(5) develop and propose a coordinated strategy 
for funding and allocating responsibilities among 
Federal agencies for climate and other global change 
data collection, management, and retention; 
(6) make recommendations for ensuring that 
particular attention is paid to the collection, man-
agement, and archiving of metadata; 
(7) make recommendations for ensuring a uni-
fied and coordinated Federal capital investment 
strategy with respect to climate and other global 
change data collection, management, and archiving; 
(8) evaluate the data record from each observ-
ing system and make recommendations to ensure 
that delivered data are free from time-dependent bi-
ases and random errors before they are transferred 
to long-term archives; and 
(9) evaluate optimal design of observation sys-
tem components to ensure a cost-effective, adequate 
set of observations detecting and tracking global 
change. 
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