Sec. 4. Building the digital coast

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The Secretary shall establish Digital Coast as a program that provides data integration, tool development, training, documentation, dissemination, and archive by— making data and resulting integrated products developed under this section readily accessible via the Digital Coast Internet website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the GeoPlatform.gov and data.gov Internet websites, and such other Internet technologies as the Secretary considers appropriate; developing decision-support tools that use and display resulting integrated data and provide training on use of such tools; documenting such data to Federal Geographic Data Committee standards; and archiving all raw data acquired under this Act at the appropriate National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data center or such other Federal data center as the Secretary considers appropriate.

The Secretary shall coordinate the activities carried out pursuant to this Act to maximize data collection, sharing and integration, and to minimize duplication by— consulting with coastal managers and decisionmakers concerning coastal issues, and sharing information and best practices, as the Secretary considers appropriate, with— coastal States; local governments; and representatives of nongovernmental entities; consulting with other Federal agencies on relevant Federal activities, including activities carried out under the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act (33 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009 ( 33 U.S.C. 3601 et seq. ), and the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 892 et seq.); participating, pursuant to section 216 of the E-Government Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–347 ; 44 U.S.C. 3501 note), in the establishment of such standards and common protocols as the Secretary considers necessary to assure the interoperability of remote sensing and other geospatial data with all users of such information within— the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; other Federal agencies;

State and local government; and the private sector; and coordinating with, seeking assistance and cooperation of, and providing liaison to the Federal Geographic Data Committee pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A–16 and Executive Order 12906 of April 14, 1994 (59 Fed. Reg. 17671), as amended by Executive Order 13286 of March 5, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 10619). In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— recognize that remote sensing and other geospatial data acquisition for navigational and positioning purposes is carried out through other authorities and programs; focus on filling data needs and gaps for critical coastal management issues; pursuant to the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act ( 33 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. ), support continue improvement in existing efforts to coordinate the acquisition and integration of key data sets needed for coastal management and other purposes, including— coastal elevation data; land use and land cover data; socioeconomic and human use data; critical infrastructure data; structures data; living resources and habitat data; cadastral data; and aerial imagery; integrate the priority supporting data set forth under paragraph

(3)with other available data for the benefit of the broadest measure of coastal resource management constituents and applications; enter into financial agreements to carry out this Act, including— program support to non-Federal entities that participate in implementing this Act; financial agreements, including grants, cooperative agreements, interagency agreements, and contracts, or any other agreement on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis, with other Federal, tribal, State, and local governmental and nongovernmental entities; and registration fees in support of training, workshops, and conferences that advance the purposes of this Act; and enter into such contracts with private sector entities for such products and services as the Secretary determines may be necessary to collect remote sensing and other geospatial data, which contracts shall be considered surveying and mapping services as such term is used in and as such contracts are awarded by the Secretary in accordance with the selection procedures in chapter 11 of title 40, United States Code.

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