Sec. 90015. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate adaptation and resilience activities
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $765,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2026, to carry out the provisions of the National Climate Program Act ( 15 U.S.C. 2901–2908 ), the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act ( 15 U.S.C. 8501 et seq. ), title III of the America COMPETES Act ( 33 U.S.C. 893 , 893a, 893b, and 893c), the National Integrated Drought Information System Act ( 15 U.S.C. 313d ), the Weather Service Organic Act ( 15 U.S.C. 313 et seq. ), the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 4001–4010 ), and the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act ( 33 U.S.C. 3701–3708 ) to develop and distribute actionable climate information for communities across all States, territories, and Tribal lands of the United States in an equitable manner, to build climate resilience and develop a climate-ready workforce.
The amounts made available in subsection
(a)shall be used for the following activities: $265,000,000 to better enable end users, as appropriate, to assess the relative risk of, determine possible adaptation and mitigation strategies for, and make executive and budgetary decisions in response to climate impacts by— increasing end user understanding of the impacts of climate change at the local and regional level; developing actionable climate information and accessible tools and products; and providing end users with technical assistance. $500,000,000 to recruit, educate, and train a climate-ready workforce to— develop and support on-the-ground community-driven projects to enhance climate adaptation and resilience; support community engagement and participation in monitoring, tracking, and preparing for extreme events; support local resilience to climate impacts; conduct community-driven climate science; and enhance the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s delivery of climate information services, tools, and products, including but not limited to those developed in paragraph (1)(B). For the purposes of this section, the term end users shall include— States; territories; Tribes; local governments; businesses; not-for-profit or other organizations; and individuals. For the purposes of this section, the term extreme event refers to a time and place in which weather, climate, or environmental conditions, such as temperature, precipitation, drought, or flooding, rank above a threshold value near the upper or lower ends of the range of historical measurements.
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- 15 USC 2901–2908
- 33 USC 4001–4010
- 33 USC 3701–3708
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Sec. 90015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate adaptation and resilience activities
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