National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

30 April 1991

Last action

29 October 1992 · President

Status

Became Public Law No: 102-567.

Summary

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Title I: National Ocean Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for: (1) mapping, charting, and geodesy; (2) observation and assessment; and (3) ocean and coastal management. Title II: National Marine Fisheries Service - Amends the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Authorization Act to authorize appropriations to the Department of Commerce for the National Marine Fisheries Service for: (1) information collection and analysis; (2) conservation and management; and (3) State and industry assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with, and provide financial assistance to, State, marine fisheries commissions, regional fishery management councils, and academic institutions for research on marine animals, endangered species, and fisheries conservation and management. Title III: Oceanic and Atmospheric Research - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for: (1) climate and air quality research; and (2) atmospheric research. Requires the Office of the Chief Scientist of NOAA to submit to the Congress a plan for implementation of a nationwide climate services system and applied climatology program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for ocean and Great Lakes research. Authorizes appropriations to the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OOAR) of NOAA for the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the OOAR for a large lakes research plan. Title IV: National Weather Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) for operations and research. Mandates establishment of: (1) an advisory committee on Atlantic tropical cyclone research and reconnaissance; and (2) a five-year program for data collection, research, and analysis on such cyclones. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the NWS for public warning and forecast systems, including systems acquisition. Mandates an annual report to the Congress of an updated National Implementation Plan for the modernization of the NWS. Prohibits closing, consolidating, automating, or relocating National Weather Service Offices or National Weather Service Forecast Offices unless certain conditions are met. Title V: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for: (1) satellite observing systems; and (2) data and information services. Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to mandate that any license issued under specified provisions of that Act specify that the licensee shall promptly make available all unenhanced data which the Secretary of the Interior (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) may request under specified provisions of the Act relating to archiving of data. Amends provisions of the Act relating to archiving in order to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for: (1) providing for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of the basic, global, land remote-sensing data set; (2) requesting data needed for the basic data set from a system operator; (3) making data which is in the public domain available to requesting parties; and (4) using existing Government facilities, to the extent practicable, to carry out these functions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that archiving activities are consistent with the terms and conditions of any contract, agreement, or license under specified provisions of the Act. Title VI: Program Support - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for: (1) executive direction and administrative activities; (2) acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities; (3) marine services; and (4) reactivation and operation of a specified research vessel. Prohibits deactivation of any NOAA research vessel until an equivalent replacement is operational. Prohibits construction of any NOAA vessel or its major components in a foreign shipyard. Prohibits NOAA vessels homeported in the United States from being overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a foreign shipyard, except for voyage repairs. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Oceanographer of the Navy regarding interoperability of NOAA vessels with Navy vessels. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for modernization of the NOAA fleet. Mandates submission to the Congress of a detailed fleet replacement and modernization plan. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire NOAA vessels by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, or otherwise, under one or more multi-year contracts. Imposes requirements and conditions on such contracts. Amends provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 relating to capital construction funds to add vessels operating under an agreement with the Secretary for use by NOAA to the definitions of "eligible vessel" and "qualified vessel." Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for aircraft services. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires notice to specified congressional committees: (1) before the Secretary may carry out a major reorganization of, or reprogram over a specified amount of funds appropriated for, any NOAA program or activity; and (2) annually regarding any new NOAA program or activity. Requires the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress an audit of: (1) natural resource damage assessment and restoration activities of NOAA under specified Acts; and (2) the Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on a two-year budget cycle for NOAA. Freezes the price of nautical charts or other nautical products produced or published by NOAA. Mandates a report to the Congress by the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology regarding: (1) the most urgent current needs of oceanographic researchers for remote sensing capabilities and remotely sensed data; and (2) the major goals of satellite oceanography for the next ten years. Directs the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a report on how current and planned Federal satellite capabilities can aid in the enforcement of Federal fisheries laws and international fisheries conservation programs. Establishes in NOAA a Cooperative Institute of Fisheries Oceanography in partnership with Duke University and the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to acquire space from the Administrator of General Services in the area of Newport News-Norfolk, Virginia, for consolidating and meeting the long-term space needs of NOAA in a cost-effective manner. Authorizes exchange of Department of Commerce real property for other real property in the area. Directs the Secretary to complete and make publicly available a manual describing requirements for recipients of NOAA financial assistance. Prohibits, after enactment of this Act, subjecting such assistance to review by the Financial Assistance Review Board. Sets forth procedures applicable to nondiscretionary assistance programs. Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, financial assistance provided under a program for which the recipient is specified by statute to be, or has customarily been, a State or an interstate fishery commission may be provided on a sole-source basis. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for implementing the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990. Prohibits using amounts appropriated under this Act for activities authorized separately under the Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Resources Act. Repeals the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant of a specified amount to a qualified institution to develop and promote innovative postsecondary education and research in seafood business management and vessel operations.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

30 April 1991
Introduced
Referred to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Source: IntroReferral
30 April 1991
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
30 April 1991
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
1 May 1991
Committee
Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior, GSA.
Source: Committee
1 May 1991
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf.
Source: Committee
2 May 1991
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
2 May 1991
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
2 May 1991
Committee
Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Discharged.
Source: Committee
3 May 1991
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Source: Committee
8 May 1991
Committee
Executive Comment Received from Commerce.
Source: Committee
26 June 1991
Introduced
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs for a period ending not later than July 12, 1991 for consideration of such provisions of the amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(n) of Rule X.
Source: IntroReferral
26 June 1991
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. Rept. 102-133, Part I.
Source: Committee
26 June 1991
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. Rept. 102-133, Part I.
Source: Committee
10 July 1991
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
10 July 1991
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 July 1991
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources.
Source: Committee
11 July 1991
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 102-133, Part II.
Source: Committee
11 July 1991
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 102-133, Part II.
Source: Committee
12 July 1991
Discharge
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs discharged.
Source: Discharge
12 July 1991
Committee
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs discharged.
Source: Committee
13 November 1991
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 278 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2130 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 3704, as modified by the amendments printed in section 2 of this resolution, as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. No amendment to said substitute shall be in order except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Said amendments shall be considered in the order and manner specified. All points of order against said amendments are waived.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Passed
On passage Passed by voice vote.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Passed
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2130.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2130 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 3704, as modified by the amendments printed in section 2 of this resolution, as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. No amendment to said substitute shall be in order except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Said amendments shall be considered in the order and manner specified. All points of order against said amendments are waived.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
The Speaker designated the Honorable Richard J. Durbin to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 278 and Rule XXIII.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Floor
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 278.
Source: Floor
20 November 1991
Passed
Rule H. Res. 278 passed House.
Source: Floor
22 November 1991
Introduced
Received in the Senate.
Source: IntroReferral
23 November 1991
Introduced
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 364.
Source: Calendars
19 December 1991
Committee
See H.R.1776.
Source: Committee
12 August 1992
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
12 August 1992
Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.
Source: Floor
9 September 1992
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
6 October 1992
Passed
House agreed to Senate amendments with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 610.
Source: Floor
6 October 1992
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 610.
Source: NotUsed
7 October 1992
Passed
Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
7 October 1992
Passed
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Source: NotUsed
7 October 1992
Floor
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
Source: Floor
9 October 1992
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
20 October 1992
Floor
Presented to President.
Source: Floor
20 October 1992
President
Presented to President.
Source: President
29 October 1992
Became law
Became Public Law No: 102-567.
Source: President
29 October 1992
Became law
Signed by President.
Source: BecameLaw
29 October 1992
President
Signed by President.
Source: President

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

Engrossed Amendment House · — · Download file
Engrossed Amendment Senate · — · Download file
Engrossed in House · — · Download file
Enrolled Bill · — · Download file
Introduced in House · — · Download file
Placed on Calendar Senate · — · Download file
Reported in House · — · Download file

Documents

13 official files

Reported in House (text)

View file Download file

This file cannot be previewed here. Use View or Download.

Leesvertaling

Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.

Vertaal naar

Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

Reported in House (text)
Reported in House · EN
View Download Open at official source
Placed on Calendar Senate (text)
Placed on Calendar Senate · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Enrolled Bill (text)
Enrolled Bill · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Engrossed in House (text)
Engrossed in House · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)
Engrossed Amendment Senate · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Engrossed Amendment House (text)
Engrossed Amendment House · EN
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Public Law (PDF)
Public Law · EN · 30 October 1992
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
House agreed to Senate amendment with amendment
summary · EN · 6 October 1992
Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Passed House amended
summary · EN · 20 November 1991
Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Reported to House amended, Part II
summary · EN · 11 July 1991
Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Reported to House amended, Part I
summary · EN · 26 June 1991
Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 30 April 1991
Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

Related records

Showing 13 of 17 related records.

Related across the Repo ecosystem

Direct relationships are identifier-backed. Topic context means shared TopicMembership — not a citation and not causation.

Direct relationships

Legal framework · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992 · H.R. 2130 (102nd) · US

Identifier matchPROJECTS_FROM
Same us record 102-hr-2130 projected from PoliticalRepo US row.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.

Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/2130
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/102/hr/2130
us · 102-hr-2130 · source updated 7 February 2024