Title: National Institute of Standards and Technology Surviving Unprecedented Climate Change Effects with Standard Setting (NIST SUCCESS) Act of 2017
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
National Institute of Standards and Technology Surviving Unprecedented Climate Change Effects with Standard Setting (NIST SUCCESS) Act of 2017
This bill requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to: (1) identify consistent and authoritative climate information to assist organizations that develop standards, building codes, and voluntary certifications to appropriately anticipate extreme weather and other climate change challenges; (2) identify efforts to set standards, building codes, and voluntary certifications relating to infrastructure and systems that may depend on accurate climate information and projections; and (3) take steps to make the information available to the entities setting those standards, codes, and certifications.
NIST must also coordinate federal agencies efforts to set those standards, codes, and certifications.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1464 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1464

To direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene 
  an effort to make available to standard-developing organizations a 
  consistent, authoritative set of climate information, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2017

  Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Curbelo of Florida, Mr. 
  Kilmer, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Soto) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene 
  an effort to make available to standard-developing organizations a 
  consistent, authoritative set of climate information, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Surviving Unprecedented Climate Change Effects with Standard 
Setting (NIST SUCCESS) Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--The National Institute of Standards and Technology 
shall identify a consistent, authoritative set of climate information, 
emphasizing forward-looking climate information and projections, to 
assist Federal and non-Federal organizations that develop standards, 
building codes, and voluntary certifications to appropriately 
anticipate extreme weather and other climate change challenges.
    (b) Convening Agencies.--In order to identify information as 
required under subsection (a), the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, in coordination with the United States Global Change 
Research Program and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group, shall 
convene relevant Federal agencies.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            (1) the term ``extreme weather'' includes observed or 
        anticipated severe and unseasonable atmospheric conditions, 
        including drought, wildfire, heavy precipitation, hurricanes, 
        tornadoes and other windstorms (including derechos), extreme 
        heat, extreme cold, sustained temperatures or precipitation 
        that deviate from historical averages, and any other weather 
        event that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
        in coordination with the United States Global Change Research 
        Program and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group, 
        determines qualifies as extreme weather; and
            (2) the term ``other climate change challenges'' means 
        wildfires, king tides, rising sea levels, and any other climate 
        change-related challenges that the National Institute of 
        Standards and Technology, in coordination with the United 
        States Global Change Research Program and the Mitigation 
        Framework Leadership Group, determines qualify as climate 
        change challenges other than extreme weather.

SEC. 3. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology, with 
appropriate assistance from relevant Federal agencies, shall--
            (1) identify Federal and non-Federal efforts to set 
        standards, building codes, and voluntary certifications 
        relating to energy, government facilities, transportation 
        systems, water and wastewater systems, and other infrastructure 
        and systems that may depend on accurate climate information and 
        projections; and
            (2) take appropriate steps to make information identified 
        under section 2 available to the entities setting such 
        standards, codes, and certifications.

SEC. 4. COORDINATION OF FEDERAL STANDARD-SETTING EFFORTS.

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology shall coordinate 
Federal agencies' efforts--
            (1) to set standards, building codes, and voluntary 
        certifications relating to energy, government facilities, 
        transportation systems, water and wastewater systems, and other 
        infrastructure and systems that may depend on accurate climate 
        information and projections; or
            (2) to contribute to the setting of such standards, codes, 
        and certifications by others.
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