Sec. 4. Establishment of the Digital Coast

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The Secretary shall establish a program for the provision of an enabling platform that integrates geospatial data, decision-support tools, training, and best practices to address coastal management issues and needs. Under the program, the Secretary shall strive to enhance resilient communities, ecosystem values, and coastal economic growth and development by helping communities address their issues, needs, and challenges through cost-effective and participatory solutions. The program established under paragraph

(1)shall be known as the Digital Coast (in this section referred to as the program ). In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall ensure that the program 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 information distribution 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 under the program to optimize 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 academia, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations; consulting with other Federal agencies, including interagency committees, 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 the program, the Secretary shall— maximize the use of remote sensing and other geospatial data collection activities conducted for other purposes and under other authorities; focus on filling data needs and gaps for coastal management issues, including with respect to areas that, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, were underserved by coastal data and the areas of the Arctic that are under the jurisdiction of the United States; 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; and 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. In carrying out the program, the Secretary— may enter into financial agreements to carry out the program, including— support to non-Federal entities that participate in implementing the program; grants, cooperative agreements, interagency agreements, 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 the program; and shall enter into such contracts with private sector entities for such products and services as the Secretary determines may be necessary to collect, process, and provide remote sensing and other geospatial data and products for purposes of the program. Contracts entered into under paragraph (1)(B) 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. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program in each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021.

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