Sec. 5. National Integrated Heat Health Information System
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The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a system, to be known as the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) (in this section referred to as the System ). The purpose of the System is to improve the capacity of weather, subseasonal, and seasonal forecasts for the United States to allow the Federal Government and stakeholders to plan, prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate health risks of extreme heat across multiple timescales.
The System shall be headed by a Director. In carrying out the purpose described in subsection (b), the Director shall— develop and sustain robust relationships with Federal and non-Federal partners and decisionmakers— to respond to the demand for actionable weather- and climate-related information that reduces health risks on multiple timescales; to conduct research and scientific innovation; and to develop and deliver timely and accessible decision support services, solutions, tools, and information to inform planning, preparedness, and risk-reducing actions across timescales; coordinate and collaborate with the international community and global partners to conduct research and learn from, leverage, and contribute to global knowledge as it pertains to predicting and preventing the impacts of increased heat; enhance observations, surveillance, monitoring, and analysis necessary for the activities described in paragraphs
(1)and (2); and communicate, educate, and build awareness regarding the risks and impacts of increased heat and extreme heat events to communities, educational and economic sectors, Tribal governments, and other relevant stakeholders. The Director shall coordinate with interagency partners to ensure that data and metadata associated with the System is fully and openly available, within the legal right to redistribute, in accordance with chapter 31 of title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Records Act of 1950 ), and the Federal Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–435 ;132 Stat. 5529) and the amendments made by that Act, to maximize use of such data to support the goals of the System. The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall manage, maintain, and steward archival data and metadata associated with the System within the National Centers for Environmental Information. The Director shall develop and implement a climate and health research grant program, in coordination with the financial assistance program under section 7 and other Federal programs— to improve understanding of— the climate epidemiology and social, behavioral, and economic drivers of heat-health vulnerability and risk; the drivers of climate variability, predictability, and changes in extreme heat; and the impacts of extreme heat, compound hazards, and cascading impacts across timescales; to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of risk management actions, interventions, policies, standards, codes, and guidelines; and to address other topics as appropriate, including topics outlined in the strategic plan required by section 4(e)(1) and the financial assistance program under section 7. The Director shall carry out such other activities as the Committee considers appropriate.
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National Integrated Heat Health Information System
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