Sec. 6. NOAA ocean acidification activities
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Section 12406 of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 ( 33 U.S.C. 3705 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting coordination, after research, monitoring, ; in paragraph (1)— in subparagraph (B)— by inserting including the Integrated Ocean Observing System and the ocean observing assets of other Federal and State agencies, after ocean observing assets, ; and by inserting and agency and department missions, prioritizing the location of monitoring instruments, assets, and projects to maximize the efficiency of resources and to optimize understanding of socioeconomic impacts and ecosystem health after research program ; in subparagraph (C)— by striking adaptation and inserting adaptation and mitigation ; and by inserting and supporting socioeconomically vulnerable communities and industries after marine ecosystems ; in subparagraph (E), by striking its impacts and inserting their respective impacts ; in subparagraph (F), by striking monitoring and impacts research and inserting research, monitoring, and adaptation and mitigation strategies ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: research to improve understanding of the effect of— other environmental stressors on ocean acidification and coastal acidification; multiple environmental stressors on living marine resources and coastal ecosystems; and adaptation and mitigation strategies to address the socioeconomic impacts of ocean acidification and coastal acidification. ; in paragraph (2), by striking critical research projects that explore and inserting critical research and education projects that explore and communicate ; and in paragraphs
(1)and (2), by striking acidification each place it appears and inserting acidification and coastal acidification ; and by adding at the end the following new subsections: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall serve as the lead Federal agency responsible for coordinating the Federal response to ocean acidification and coastal acidification, by— leading the interagency working group in implementing the strategic research plan under section 12405; coordinating monitoring and research efforts among Federal agencies in cooperation with State, local, and Tribal government and international partners; maintaining an Ocean Acidification Information Exchange described under section 12404(b)(5) to allow for information to be electronically accessible, including information— on ocean acidification developed through or used by the ocean acidification program described under section 12406(a); or that would be useful to State governments, local governments, Tribal governments, resource managers, policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in mitigating or adapting to the impacts of ocean acidification and coastal acidification; and establishing and maintaining the data archive system under subsection (d). The Secretary, in coordination with members of the interagency working group, shall provide for the long-term stewardship of, and access to, data relating to ocean acidification and coastal acidification by establishing and maintaining a data archive system that the National Center for Environmental Information uses to process, store, archive, provide access to, and incorporate to the extent possible, such data collected— through relevant federally-funded research; and by a Federal agency, State agency, local agency, Tribe, academic scientist, citizen scientist, or industry organization. In establishing and maintaining the data archive system under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that existing global or national data assets (including the data assets maintained by the National Centers for Environmental Information, the Integrated Ocean Observing System, and other existing data systems within Federal agencies) are incorporated to the greatest extent possible. With respect to the data described in subsection (d), the Secretary, in coordination with members of the interagency working group, shall establish and revise as necessary the standards, protocols, or procedures for— processing, storing, archiving, and providing access to such data; the interoperability and intercalibration of such data; the collection of any metadata underlying such data; and sharing such data with State, local, and Tribal government programs, potentially affected industry members, coastal stakeholders, fishery management councils and commissions, non-Federal resource managers, and academia. The Secretary, in coordination with members of the interagency working group, shall disseminate the data described under subsection
(d)to the greatest extent practicable by sharing such data on full and open access exchanges, including the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange described in section 12404(b)(5). Recipients of grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under this subtitle that collect data described under subsection
(d)shall— collect such data in accordance with the standards, protocols, or procedures established pursuant to subsection (e); and submit such data to the data archive system under subsection (d), in accordance with any rules promulgated by the Secretary. .
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