Sec. 6. Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse
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The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in coordination with the Undersecretary and the Interagency Working Group, shall establish and maintain the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse to provide for the long-term stewardship of, and access to, data relating to national mapping of coastal blue carbon ecosystems, including by leveraging resources developed by the Coastal Carbon Network of the Smithsonian Institution. In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, acting through the head of the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse and in coordination with the Undersecretary and the Interagency Working Group, shall— to the greatest extent possible, process, store, archive, provide access to, and incorporate all data collected through federally funded research; to the greatest extent possible, incorporate existing global and national data assets into the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse; establish standards, protocols, and procedures to process, store, archive, and provide access to data in the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse and best practices to share such data with Federal, State, and local agencies, Indian Tribes, coastal stakeholders, non-Federal resource managers, research institutions, universities, and nonprofit and private organizations; to the greatest extent possible, disseminate to the entities described in paragraph
(3)data in the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse; and develop digital tools and resources to support the public use of the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse.