Sec. 308. Weather
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Beginning in fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall include in its annual budget request a line item for commercial space-based data buys. When practicable, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall incorporate commercial solutions, including purchases of commercial data streams, to update, augment, or serve as a follow-on to its existing programs of record, and shall seek to avoid starting new programs of record unless such commercial solutions have been exhausted.
Before commencing the development of any program, the Administrator shall certify to Congress that no commercial capability or service, with or without reasonable modifications, can meet the requirements for which such program is being developed. For the purposes of commercial space-based data buys to meet mission requirements of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, there are authorized to be appropriated— $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2017; $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2018; $55,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2020; and $130,000,000 for fiscal year 2021.