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 106 STAT. 4280 PUBLIC LAW 102-567—OCT. 29, 1992 Engineering, and Technology shall submit to the Congress a report which describes the findings and recommendations of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences, including recommendations for, or a description of actions to be taken toward— (1) correcting the inadequacies in remote sensing capabilities; (2) improving the availability of remotely sensed data; and (3) achieving the msgor goals of satellite oceanography developed pursuant to subsection (a)(2). TITLE II—NOAA OCEAN AND COASTAL PROGRAMS SEC. 20i: NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE. (a) MAPPING, CHARTING, AND GEODESY.— There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce, to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out mapping, charting, and geodesy activities (including geodetic data collection and analysis) under the Act of 1947 and any other law involving those activities, $50,917,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $51,087,000 for fiscal year 1993. (b) OBSERVATION AND ASSESSMENT.— T here are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce, to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out observation and assessment activities— (1) under the Act of 1947 and any other law involving those activities, $57,273,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $57,273,000 for fiscal year 1993; and (2) under title II of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.), $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1993. (c) COASTAL OCEAN PROGRAM.—Of the sums authorized under ,r . subsection (b)(1), $17,352,000 for each of the fiscal years 1992 and 1993 are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of conducting a Coastal Ocean Program. Such program shall augment and integrate existing programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and shall include efforts to improve predictions of fish stocks, to better conserve and manage living marine resources, to improve predictions of coastal ocean pollution to help correct and prevent degradation of the ocean environment, to promote development of ocean technology to support the effort of science to understand and characterize the role oceans play g* ijj global climate and environmental analysis, and to improve predictions of coastal hazards to protect human life and personal property. (d) LONG ISLAND SOUND CIRCULATION MODEL.—N O moneys appropriated pursuant to the authorizations in this Act shall be used to conduct analyses of samples collected under the National Status and Trends Program until the Policy Committee of the Long Island Sound Study certifies that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed the water circulation model for Long Island Sound. (e) CIRCULATION MODEL FUNDING.— Of the sums authorized under subsection (b) for fiscal year 1992, $600,000 is available for completion of the water circulation model for Long Island Sound and $400,000 is available for National Status and Trends Program stations in Long Island Sound.

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