(5) conducting and supporting applied research 
to facilitate the rapid incorporation of weather and 
climate science advances into operational tools; and 
(6) other functions to serve the mission of the 
National Weather Service described in subsection 
(b). 
SEC. 6. OPERATIONS AND SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall maintain 
within the Administration programs to support efforts, on 
a continuing basis, to collect data and provide information 
and products regarding satellites, observations, and coast-
al, ocean and Great Lakes information. 
(b) FUNCTIONS.—To accomplish the mission de-
scribed in section 3(b), and in addition to the functions 
described in section 3(c), the operations and service as-
pects of the Administration shall include— 
(1) acquiring, managing, and operating coastal, 
ocean, and Great Lakes observing systems; 
(2) contributing to the operation of a global 
Earth-observing system; 
(3) integrating Administration remote sensing 
and in situ assets that provide critical data needed 
to support the mission of the Administration, and 
providing that data to decisionmakers and the pub-
lic; 
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(4) developing, acquiring, and managing oper-
ational environmental satellite programs and associ-
ated ground control and data acquisition and deliv-
ery facilities to support the mission of the Adminis-
tration; 
(5) managing and distributing atmospheric, 
geophysical, and marine data and data products for 
the Administration through national environmental 
data centers; 
(6) providing for long-term stewardship of envi-
ronmental data, products, and information via data 
processing, storage, reanalysis, reprocessing, and ar-
chive facilities; 
(7) issuing licenses for private remote sensing 
space systems under the Land Remote Sensing Pol-
icy Act of 1992; 
(8) administering a national water level obser-
vation network, which shall include monitoring of 
the Great Lakes; 
(9) providing charts and other information for 
safe navigation of the oceans and inland waters, as 
provided by law; 
(10) maintaining a fleet of ships and aircraft to 
support the mission of the Administration; and 
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(11) such other operations and services func-
tions to serve the mission of the Administration as 
the Administrator may prescribe. 
SEC. 7. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall maintain 
within the Administration programs to conduct and sup-
port research and education and the development of tech-
nologies relating to weather, climate, and the coasts, 
oceans, and Great Lakes. 
(b) FUNCTIONS.—To accomplish the mission de-
scribed in section 3(b), and in addition to the functions 
described in section 3(c), the research and education as-
pects of the Administration shall include— 
(1) conducting and supporting research and de-
velopment to improve the Administration’s capabili-
ties to collect, through observation and otherwise, 
communicate, analyze, process, and disseminate 
comprehensive scientific data and information about 
weather, climate, and the coasts, oceans, and Great 
Lakes; 
(2) improving ecological prediction and manage-
ment capabilities through ecosystem-based research 
and development; 
(3) contributing information on the Earth’s cli-
mate and related systems, obtained through research 
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and observation, that addresses questions con-
fronting policymakers, resources managers, and 
other users; 
(4) reducing uncertainty in projections of how 
the Earth’s climate and related systems may change 
in the future; 
(5) fostering the public’s ability to understand 
and integrate scientific information into consider-
ations of national environmental issues through edu-
cation and public outreach activities; 
(6) administering the National Sea Grant Col-
lege Program Act; 
(7) conducting and supporting research and de-
velopment of technology for exploration of the 
oceans; 
(8) maintaining a system of laboratories to per-
form the functions described in this subsection; 
(9) supporting extramural peer-reviewed com-
petitive grant programs to assist the Administration 
in performing the functions described in this sub-
section; and 
(10) such other research, development, edu-
cation, and outreach functions to serve the mission 
of the Administration as the Administrator may pre-
scribe. 
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SEC. 8. SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be within the Admin-
istration a Science Advisory Board, which shall provide 
such scientific advice as may be requested by the Adminis-
trator, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation of the Senate, or the Committee on Science or 
on Resources of the House of Representatives. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Science Advisory 
Board is to advise the Administrator and Congress on 
long-range and short-range strategies for research, edu-
cation, and the application of science to resource manage-
ment and environmental assessment and prediction. 
(c) MEMBERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Science Advisory Board 
shall be composed of at least 15 members appointed 
by the Administrator. Each member of the Board 
shall be qualified by education, training, and experi-
ence to evaluate scientific and technical information 
on matters referred to the Board under this section. 
(2) TERMS OF SERVICE.—Members shall be ap-
pointed for 3-year terms, renewable once, and shall 
serve at the discretion of the Administrator. An indi-
vidual serving a term as a member of the Science 
Advisory Board on the date of enactment of this Act 
may complete that term, and may be reappointed 
once for another term of 3 years unless the term 
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