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(4) address such other matters as the Under 
Secretary or the Advisory Committee believes would 
improve innovation in weather forecasting. 
(b) COMPOSITION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Under Secretary shall 
appoint leading experts and innovators from all rel-
evant fields of science and engineering that inform 
meteorology, including atmospheric chemistry, at-
mospheric physics, hydrology, social science, risk 
communications, electrical engineering, and com-
puter modeling. 
(2) NUMBER.—The Advisory Committee shall 
be composed of at least 12 members, with the chair 
of the Advisory Committee chosen by the Under Sec-
retary from among the members. 
(3) RESTRICTION.—The Under Secretary may 
not appoint a majority of members who are employ-
ees of NOAA-funded research centers. 
(c) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Advisory Committee 
shall transmit annually to the Under Secretary a report 
on progress made by NOAA in adopting the Advisory 
Committee’s recommendations. The Under Secretary shall 
transmit a copy of such report to the Committee on 
Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Rep-
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resentatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate. 
(d) DURATION.—Section 14 of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the Ad-
visory Committee until the date that is 5 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 12. INTERAGENCY WEATHER RESEARCH AND INNOVA-
TION COORDINATION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy shall establish an Inter- 
agency Committee for Advancing Weather Services to im-
prove coordination of relevant weather research and fore-
cast innovation activities across the Federal Government. 
The Interagency Committee shall— 
(1) include participation by the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, the Federal Avia-
tion Administration, NOAA and its constituent ele-
ments, the National Science Foundation, and such 
other agencies involved in weather forecasting re-
search as the President determines are appropriate; 
(2) identify and prioritize top forecast needs 
and coordinate those needs against budget requests 
and program initiatives across participating offices 
and agencies; and 
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(3) share information regarding operational 
needs and forecasting improvements across relevant 
agencies. 
(b) CO-CHAIR.—The Federal Coordinator for Meteor-
ology shall serve as a co-chair of this panel. 
(c) FURTHER COORDINATION.—The Director shall 
take such other steps as are necessary to coordinate the 
activities of the Federal Government with those of the 
American weather industry, State governments, emer-
gency managers, and academic researchers. 
SEC. 13. OAR AND NWS EXCHANGE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Administrator for 
OAR and the Assistant Administrator for NWS may es-
tablish a program to detail OAR personnel to the NWS 
and NWS personnel to OAR. 
(b) GOAL.—The goal of this program is to enhance 
forecasting innovation through regular, direct interaction 
between OAR’s world-class scientists and NWS’s oper-
ational staff. 
(c) ELEMENTS.—The program shall allow up to 10 
OAR staff and NWS staff to spend up to 1 year on detail. 
Candidates shall be jointly selected by the Assistant Ad-
ministrator for OAR and the Assistant Administrator for 
NWS. 
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(d) REPORT.—The Under Secretary shall report an-
nually to the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-
nology of the House of Representatives and to the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate on participation in such program and shall high-
light any innovations that come from this interaction. 
SEC. 14. VISITING FELLOWS AT NWS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Administrator for 
NWS may establish a program to host postdoctoral fellows 
and academic researchers at any of the National Centers 
for Environmental Prediction. 
(b) GOAL.—This program shall be designed to pro-
vide direct interaction between forecasters and talented 
academic and private sector researchers in an effort to 
bring innovation to forecasting tools and techniques avail-
able to the NWS. 
(c) SELECTION AND APPOINTMENT.—Such fellows 
shall be competitively selected and appointed for a term 
not to exceed 1 year. 
SEC. 15. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AOA.—The term ‘‘AOA’’ means an Anal-
ysis of Alternatives. 
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(2) NESDIS.—The term ‘‘NESDIS’’ means 
the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and In-
formation Service. 
(3) NOAA.—The term ‘‘NOAA’’ means the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 
(4) NWS.—The term ‘‘NWS’’ means the Na-
tional Weather Service. 
(5) OAR.—The term ‘‘OAR’’ means the Office 
of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. 
(6) OSE.—The term ‘‘OSE’’ means an Observ-
ing System Experiment. 
(7) OSSE.—The term ‘‘OSSE’’ means an Ob-
serving System Simulation Experiment. 
(8) UNDER
SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Under 
Secretary’’ means the Under Secretary of Commerce 
for Oceans and Atmosphere. 
SEC. 16. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) FISCAL YEAR 2014.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated for fiscal year 2014— 
(1) $83,000,000 to OAR to carry out this Act, 
of which— 
(A) $65,000,000 is authorized for weather 
laboratories and cooperative institutes; and 
(B) $18,000,000 is authorized for weather 
and air chemistry research programs; and 
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(2) out of funds made available for research 
and development in NWS, an additional amount of 
$14,000,000 for OAR to carry out the joint tech-
nology transfer initiative described in section 
3(b)(4). 
(b) ALTERNATIVE
FUNDING
FOR
FISCAL
YEAR 
2014.—If the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 
112–25) is repealed or replaced with an Act that increases 
allocations, subsection (a) shall not apply, and there are 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2014— 
(1) $96,500,000 to OAR to carry out this Act, 
of which— 
(A) $77,500,000 is authorized for weather 
laboratories and cooperative institutes; and 
(B) $19,000,000 is authorized for weather 
and air chemistry research programs; and 
(2) out of funds made available for research 
and development in NWS, an additional amount of 
$16,000,000 for OAR to carry out the joint tech-
nology transfer initiative described in section 
3(b)(4). 
(c) FISCAL YEARS 2015 THROUGH 2017.—For each 
of fiscal years 2015 through 2017, there are authorized 
to be appropriated— 
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(1) $100,000,000 to OAR to carry out this Act, 
of which— 
(A) $80,000,000 is authorized for weather 
laboratories and cooperative institutes; and 
(B) $20,000,000 is authorized for weather 
and air chemistry research programs; and 
(2) an additional amount of $20,000,000 for 
the joint technology transfer initiative described in 
section 3(b)(4). 
(d) LIMITATION.—No additional funds are author-
ized to carry out this Act, and the amendments made by 
this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 1, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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