---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2936"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2936"
heading: "Scientific assessment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2936"
units:
  - "Chapter 56A — Global Change Research"
  - "Subchapter I — United States Global Change Research Program"
---

# §2936. Scientific assessment


On a periodic basis (not less frequently than every 4 years), the [Council](/usc/15/2921.md?p=2), through the [Committee](/usc/15/2921.md?p=1), shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an assessment which—

- (1) integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the [Program](/usc/15/2921.md?p=6) and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings;
- (2) analyzes the effects of [global change](/usc/15/2921.md?p=3) on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and
- (3) analyzes current trends in [global change](/usc/15/2921.md?p=3), both human-inducted[^1] and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “human-induced”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–606, title I, § 106, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3101.)