Sec. 1073. REPORTS ON RESOLUTION RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMERCIAL SALE OR DISSEMINATION OF ELETRO-OPTICAL IMAGERY COLLECTED BY SATELLITES

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## SEC. 1073 REPORTS ON RESOLUTION RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMERCIAL SALE OR DISSEMINATION OF ELETRO-OPTICAL IMAGERY COLLECTED BY SATELLITES ###

(a)Secretary of Commerce Report ####

(1)Report required Not later than April 15, 2012, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to Congress a report setting forth the results of a comprehensive review of current restrictions on the resolution of electro-optical

(EO)imagery collected from satellites that commercial companies may sell or disseminate. The report shall include such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the Secretary considers appropriate in light of the results of the review. ####

(2)Considerations In conducting the review required for purposes of the report under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall take into consideration the following: #####

(A)Increases in sales of commercial satellite imagery that would result from a relaxation of resolution restrictions, and the ensuing benefit to the United States Government, commerce, and academia from an expanding market in satellite imagery. #####

(B)Current and anticipated deployments of satellites built in foreign countries that can or will be able to collect imagery at a resolution greater than .5 meter resolution, and the sale or dissemination of such imagery. #####

(C)The lead-time involved in securing financing, designing, building, and launching the new satellite imagery collection capabilities that would be required to enable United States commercial satellite companies to match current and anticipated foreign satellite imagery collection capabilities. #####

(D)Inconsistencies between the current resolution restrictions on the sale or dissemination of imagery collected by United States commercial companies, the availability of higher resolution imagery from foreign sources, and the National Space Policy of the United States, released by the President on June 28, 2010. #####

(E)The lack of restrictions on the sale or dissemination of high-resolution imagery collected by aircraft. ###

(b)Intelligence Assessment ####

(1)Assessment required Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth an assessment of the benefits and risks of relaxing current resolution restrictions on the electro-optical imagery from satellites that commercial United States companies may sell or disseminate, together with recommendations for means of protecting national security related information in the event of the relaxation of such resolution restrictions. ####

(2)Appropriate committees of congress defined In this subsection, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— #####

(A)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and #####

(B)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.