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 106 STAT. 4304 PUBLIC LAW 102-567—OCT. 29, 1992 decommission a National Weather Service radar, change staff- ing levels significantly, or move a field office to a new location inside the local commuting and service area; (3) "Committee" means the Modernization Transition Committee established by section 707; (4) "degradation of service" means any decrease in or failure to maintain the quality and tj^pje of weather services provided by the National Weauier Service to the public in a service area, including but not limited to a reduction in existing weather radar coverage at an elevation of 10,000 feet; (5) "field office" means any National Weather Service Office or National Weather Service Forecast Office; (6) "Plan" means the National Implementation Plan required under section 703; (7) "relocate" means to transfer from one location to another location that is outside the local commuting or service area; (8) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Commerce; (9) "service area" means the geographical area for which a field office provides services or conducts observations, including but not limited to local forecasts, severe weather w£umings, aviation support, radar coverage, and ground weather observations; and (10) "Strategic Plan" means the 10-year strategic plan for the comprehensive modernization of the National Weather Service, required under section 407 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 (15 U.S.C. 313 note). SEC. 703. NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. (a) NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. —AS part of the budget justification documents submitted to Congress in support of the £mnual budget request for the Department of Commerce, the Secretary shall include a National Implementation Plan for modernization of the National Weather Service for each fiscal year following fiscal year 1993 until such modernization is complete. The Plan shall set forth the actions, during the 2-year period beginning with the fiscal year for which the budget request is macte, that will be necessary to accomplish the objectives described in the Strategic Plan, and shall include— (1) detailed requirements for new technologies, facilities, staffing levels and positions, and funding, in accordance with the overall schedule for modernization; (2) notification of any proposed action to change operations at a field office and the intended date of such operational change; (3) identification of any field office that the Secretary intends to certify under section 706, including the intended date of such certincation; (4) special measiires to test, evaluate, and demonstrate key elements of the modernized National Weather Service operations prior to national implementation, including a midtistation operational demonstration which tests the performcuice of the modernization in an integrated manner for a sustained period; (5) detailed plans and funding requirements for meteorological research to be accomplishment under this title to assure that new techniques in forecasting will be developed to utilize

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