Sec. 4. Plan and implementation of plan to make certain models and data available to the public
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The Administrator shall develop and implement a plan to make available to the public the following: Operational models developed by the Administration. Models that are not operational models, including experimental and developmental models, as the Administrator determines appropriate. Applicable information and documentation for models described in paragraphs
(1)and (2). Subject to section 7, all data owned by the Federal Government and data that the Administrator has the legal right to redistribute that are associated with models made available to the public pursuant to the plan and used in operational forecasting by the Administration, including— relevant metadata; data used for operational models used by the Administration as of the date of the enactment of this Act; and a description of intended model outputs. In developing and implementing the plan under subsection (a), the Administrator may make such accommodations as the Administrator considers appropriate to ensure that the public release of any model, information, documentation, or data pursuant to the plan does not jeopardize— national security; intellectual property or redistribution rights, including under titles 17 and 35, United States Code; any trade secret or commercial or financial information subject to section 552(b)(4) of title 5, United States Code; any models or data that are otherwise restricted by contract or other written agreement; or the mission of the Administration to protect lives and property. In developing and implementing the plan under subsection (a), the Administrator shall prioritize making available to the public the models described in subsection (a)(1). In developing and implementing the plan under subsection (a), the Administrator may exclude models that the Administrator determines will be retired or superseded in fewer than 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 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. The Administrator shall plan for and establish a program to support infrastructure, including telecommunications and technology infrastructure of the Administration and the platforms described in subsection (e), relevant to making operational models and data available to the public pursuant to the plan under subsection (a). 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 ; 132 Stat. 5456)) as paragraph (5).
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Plan and implementation of plan to make certain models and data available to the public
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