Title: To direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a National Coastal Data Information System, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a National Coastal Data Information System.
NOAA must use the system to (1) combine existing observations, modeling, predictions, products and services into an integrated framework for producing and maintaining authoritative and timely data, maps, and information services which quantify and communicate coastal flood risk to the states; (2) develop and strengthen partnerships with organizations that represent end users within coastal communities to better assess information gaps and needs relating to the risk posed by the rising sea level; and (3) produce new information products and services, targeted to end-user needs, that allow coastal communities across the United States to plan for present and future coastal flood risk.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8750 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8750

 To direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator 
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a 
   National Coastal Data Information System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2020

Ms. Velazquez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator 
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a 
   National Coastal Data Information System, 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. NATIONAL SEA LEVEL RISE RISK ANALYSIS.

    (a) Purposes.--The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the 
Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
shall establish a National Coastal Data Information System to--
            (1) combine existing observations, modeling, predictions, 
        products and services into an integrated framework for 
        producing and maintaining authoritative and timely data, maps, 
        and information services which quantify and communicate coastal 
        flood risk to the States;
            (2) develop and strengthen partnerships with organizations 
        that represent end users within coastal communities, including 
        other Federal agencies, to better assess information gaps and 
        needs relating to the risk posed by the rising sea level; and
            (3) produce new information products and services, targeted 
        to end-user needs, that allow coastal communities across the 
        United States to plan for present and future coastal flood 
        risk.
    (b) Report.--The Administrator shall, not less than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act and every 3 years thereafter, provide 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives with 
a report containing holistic analysis of the need to expand 
observations, modeling, predictions, products, and services to--
            (1) improve the understanding of changing coastal flood 
        risk, including the impacts of sea level rise; and
            (2) track and report how observed rates of sea level rise 
        compare to the sea level rise predictions published within the 
        National Climate Assessments.
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