Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/1307
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 14:11:37+00:00

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All nautical products created or published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall be sold at such prices as the Secretary of Commerce shall establish annually, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. The Secretary shall publish annually the prices at which nautical products are sold to the public.
Subject to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the prices of nautical products may be increased over a period of not less than three years after the date of enactment of this section so as to recover all costs attributable to data base management, compilation, printing, and distribution of such products. The prices of such products may be maintained to recover all such costs thereafter.
The Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall adjust the prices of nautical products in such manner as is necessary to avoid any adverse impact on marine safety attributable to the prices specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
This section shall not be construed to require the establishment of any price for a nautical product where, in the judgment of the Secretary, furnishing of that product to a recipient is a reasonable exchange for voluntary contribution of information by the recipient to a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Prices established under this section may not include costs attributable to the acquisition or processing of nautical data.
Fees collected from the sale of nautical products under this section and from any licensing of such products which is permitted under any other provision of law shall be deposited in the miscellaneous receipts fund of the United States Treasury.
at prices which the Secretary establishes, to the departments and officers of the United States requiring them for official use.
The fees provided for in this section are for the purpose of reimbursing the United States Government for the costs of creating, publishing or distributing nautical products of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The collection of fees authorized by this section shall not alter or expand any duty or liability of the United States under existing law for the performance of functions for which fees are collected, nor shall the collection of fees constitute an express or implied undertaking by the United States to perform any activity in a certain manner.
For purposes of this section, the term “nautical products” includes all nautical charts, tide and tidal current tables, tidal current charts, coast pilots, water level products, and associated data bases which are created or published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 246 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 76, 28 Stat. 620; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §§ 4, 10, 32 Stat. 826, 829; July 1, 1916 ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 320; June 5, 1920, ch. 235, § 1, 41 Stat. 929; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 3(11), 65 Stat. 708; July 9, 1956, ch. 528, 70 Stat. 512; Aug. 14, 1964, Pub. L. 88–441, 78 Stat. 446).
The reference to the Environmental Science Service Administration is inserted on the authority of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965.
The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a)(2)(A), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 99–272, which was approved Apr. 7, 1986.
2000—Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(1), struck out “and aeronautical” after “nautical” in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1), (2)(A). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), struck out “and aeronautical” after “nautical” wherever appearing.
Subsec. (a)(2)(B). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), (b), struck out “or aeronautical” after “nautical” and “aviation and” after “impact on”.
Subsec. (a)(3), (4). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), struck out “or aeronautical” after “nautical”.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), struck out “or aeronautical” after “nautical”.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), struck out “and aeronautical” after “nautical” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(c), struck out “aeronautical and” after “publishing or distributing”.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–181, § 606(a)(2), struck out “and aeronautical” after “nautical” in two places.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 99–272 added subsecs. (c) to (e).
Amendment by Pub. L. 106–181 applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1999, see section 3 of Pub. L. 106–181, set out as a note under section 106 of Title 49, Transportation.
Functions of Secretary and other officers of Department of Commerce under this section that relate to the Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography to provide aeronautical charts and related products and services for safe and efficient navigation of air commerce transferred to Administrator of Federal Aviation Administration effective Oct. 1, 2000, see section 44721(c)(3) of Title 49, Transportation.
Pub. L. 103–121, title II, Oct. 27, 1993, 107 Stat. 1170.

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