Sec. 4. Requirement to make certain operational models available to the public
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The Administrator shall make available to the public the following: Current and future operational models developed by the Administration, in the form of open source code for a period consistent with applicable records retention requirements. All Government-owned data, subject to redistribution rights, associated with such models and used in operational forecasting by the Administration, including— relevant metadata; data used for current operational forecasts; and a description of intended model outputs.
The Administrator may make experimental or developmental models associated with development projects funded by the Administration available to the public as open source code. In carrying out subsections
(a)and (b), the Administrator may use government servers, contracts or agreements with a private vendor, or any other platform consistent with the purpose of this Act. Section 102(b) of the Weather Research Forecasting and Innovation Act of 2017 ( 15 U.S.C. 8512(b) ) is amended by redesignating the second paragraph
(4)(as added by section 4(a) of the National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–423 )) as paragraph (5). For operational models that, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, meet the requirements described in paragraph (5)(E)(ii) of section 102(b) of the Weather Research Forecasting and Innovation Act of 2017 ( 15 U.S.C. 8512(b) ), as redesignated by subsection (d), the Administrator shall implement the requirements of subsection
(a)as soon as practicable after such date of enactment. For operational models that meet the requirements described in paragraph
(1)and are created or substantially updated after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall implement the requirements of subsection
(a)not later than 1 year after such date of enactment.
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