Sec. 1612. Safety of navigation mission of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Section 442 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 1611, is further amended— in subsection (b)— by striking means of navigating vessels of the Navy and the merchant marine and inserting the means for safe navigation ; and by striking and inexpensive nautical charts and all that follows and inserting geospatial information for use by the departments and agencies of the United States, the merchant marine, and navigators generally. ; and in subsection (c)— by striking shall prepare and and inserting shall acquire, prepare, and ; by striking charts and inserting safe-for-navigation charts and datasets ; and by striking geodetic and inserting geomatics .
Section 451 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in the heading, by striking and inserting and books ; books, and datasets in paragraph (1), by striking maps, charts, and nautical books and inserting nautical and aeronautical charts, topographic and geomatics maps, books, models, and datasets ; and by amending paragraph
(2)to read as follows: acquire (by purchase, lease, license, or barter) all necessary rights, including copyrights and other intellectual property rights, required to prepare, publish, and furnish to navigators the products described in paragraph (1). . The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter II of chapter 22 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 451 and inserting the following new item: 451. Maps, charts, books, and datasets. . Section 456 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking subsections
(a)and
(b)and inserting the following: No civil action may be brought against the United States on the basis of the content of geospatial information prepared or disseminated by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. . Section 467 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (4)— in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting or about after boundaries on ; in subparagraph (A), by striking statistical ; and in subparagraph (B)— by striking geodetic and inserting geomatics ; and by inserting and services after products ; and in paragraph (5), by inserting or about after activities on .