Sec. 1607. Space-based environmental monitoring
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The Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall jointly establish mechanisms to collaborate and coordinate in defining the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to— carry out space-based environmental monitoring; and plan for future non-governmental space-based environmental monitoring capabilities, as appropriate. Nothing in paragraph
(1)may be construed to authorize a joint satellite program of the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Administrator shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the mechanisms established under subsection (a)(1). In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.