---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8511"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "8511"
heading: "Public safety priority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/8511"
units:
  - "Chapter 111 — Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation"
  - "Subchapter I — United States Weather Research and Forecasting Improvement"
---

# §8511. Public safety priority


In conducting research, the [Under Secretary](/usc/15/8501.md?p=4) shall prioritize improving weather data, modeling, computing, forecasting, and warnings for the protection of life and property and for the enhancement of the national economy.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–25, title I, § 101, Apr. 18, 2017, 131 Stat. 92.)