---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8563"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "8563"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/8563"
units:
  - "Chapter 111 — Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Improving Federal Precipitation Information"
---

# §8563. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) **Administrator—** The term “Administrator” means the [Under Secretary](/usc/15/8501.md?p=4) of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1).
- (2) **National Academies—** The term “National Academies” means the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- (3) **United States—** The term “United States” means, collectively, each [State](/usc/15/8501.md?p=2) of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and any other territory or possession of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–25, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 117–229, div. D, § 2(a), Dec. 16, 2022, 136 Stat. 2315.)