Sec. 106. Emissions monitoring and analysis program
313 words·~1 min read·
/bill/118/s/3888/is/section-106·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Science Foundation, the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Environmental Information Services Working Group, and such other technical experts as the Administrator considers appropriate, shall develop a program to use artificial intelligence to analyze global atmospheric observations in order to— improve atmospheric dispersion models; detect leaks from fuel transmission infrastructure; detect, monitor, and track smoke and other emissions from wildfires; identify significant changes in global greenhouse gas emissions; infer the geographical and production sources of emissions; and support the enforcement of applicable domestic and international laws.
The Administrator shall collaborate with Federal, international, State, local, and Tribal law enforcement entities to ensure the program developed under subsection
(a)delivers outputs that support law enforcement activities. In carrying out this section, the Administrator shall gather observational data and synthetic data on the atmosphere and its chemical components collected across the Federal Government to develop, curate, and regularly update a global atmospheric chemistry training dataset for purposes of training the artificial intelligence technology used in furtherance of this section. In carrying out this section, the Administrator— shall seek to negotiate with foreign governments for access to relevant data; and may contract to acquire relevant data. The Administrator shall develop and disseminate best practices to minimize environmental impacts from the use of artificial intelligence technology to carry out this section. Subject to section 109, the Administrator shall make available to the public, at no-cost and with no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, citing, adapting, or otherwise using under an open license, the code for the artificial intelligence used under subsection
(a)and the training dataset developed under subsection (c).