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and typhoons and to understand the relation-
ship between climate change and hurricane and 
typhoon development. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the National 
Academy of Sciences shall transmit to the Com-
mittee on Science and Technology of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report 
on the key findings of the study conducted under 
subsection (a). 
PART 2—CLIMATE AND OTHER GLOBAL CHANGE 
DATA MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 4631. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following 
findings: 
(1) Federal agencies have a primary mission to 
manage and archive climate and other global change 
data obtained through their research, development, 
or operational activities. 
(2) Maintenance of climate and global change 
data records is essential to present and future stud-
ies of the Earth’s atmosphere, biogeochemical cycles, 
and climate. 
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(3) Federal capabilities for the management 
and archiving of these data have not kept pace with 
advances in satellite and other observational tech-
nologies that have vastly expanded the type and 
amount of information that can be collected. 
(4) Proposals and plans for expansion of global 
observing networks should include plans for the 
management of data to be collected and budgets re-
flecting the cost of support for management and 
archiving of data. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this part are to es-
tablish climate and other global change data management 
and archiving as Federal agency missions, and to establish 
Federal policies for managing and archiving climate and 
other global change data. 
SEC. 4632. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this part— 
(1) the term ‘‘metadata’’ means information de-
scribing the content, quality, condition, and other 
characteristics of climate and other global change 
data, compiled, to the maximum extent possible, con-
sistent with the requirements of the ‘‘Content Stand-
ard for Digital Geospatial Metadata’’ (FGDC–STD– 
001–1998) issued by the Federal Geographic Data 
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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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