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 PUBLIC LAW 102-567—OCT. 29, 1992 106 STAT. 4273 hurricanes and severe storms, including but not limited to the procurement of gap filler satellites, launch vehicles, and payments to foreign governments. (c) STRATEGIC PLAN.- ^1) The Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall jointly develop and, not more than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a strategic plan for development, procurement, and operation of the environmental satellite program of the Department of Commerce. (2) The objectives of the strategic plan shall be— (A) to ensure continuous and adequate operational environmental satellite coverage; and (B) to require dvrect Federal fiscal and administrative accountability in all aspects of such environmental satellite program. (3) The strategic plan shall— (A) delineate the management duties and functions of each Federal department or agency involved in such satellite program; (B) establish funding responsibilities for each Federal department or agency in a manner which reflects their respective management duties and functions; (C) set forth procedures to be followed in the development, procurement, and operations of environmental satellites in such program; (D) minimize the potential for developmental and procurement problems, and for cost overruns; (E) provide for effective interagency and international coordination; (F) provide for research and development activities to ensure that the procurement of operational environmental satellites relies on proven technologies, and to investigate potential improvements in data applications and operations for such satellites in order to improve the national weather warning and forecast system; and (G) specify legislative and administrative actions necessary to implement the plan and to accomplish the objectives described in paragraph (2). (d) GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE COMPLETE PROGRAM AUTHORIZA- TION. —<1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce for all fiscal years beginning with fiscal year 1993, not to exceed $1,005,255,000, to remain available until expended, to complete the procurement of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites I, J, K, L, and M, and the procurement of the launching and supporting ground systems of such satellites. (2) None of the funds are authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year under paragraph (1), unless, within 60 days after the submission of the President's budget request for such fiscal year, the Secretary of Commerce— (A) certifies to the Congress that— (i) the results of testing indicate that the satellite instruments are likely to meet the technical performance

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