---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9711"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9711"
heading: "Gap analysis on availability of snow-related data to assess and predict flood and flood impacts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9711"
units:
  - "Chapter 121 — Flood Level Observation, Operations, and Decision Support"
---

# §9711. Gap analysis on availability of snow-related data to assess and predict flood and flood impacts

- (a) **In general—** The [Administrator](/usc/15/9701.md?p=1), in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, and the Army Corps of Engineers, shall conduct an analysis of gaps in the availability of snow-related data to assess and predict floods and flood impacts, including data on the following:
  - (1) Snow water equivalent.
  - (2) Snow depth.
  - (3) Snowpack temperature.
  - (4) Snow and mixed-phase precipitation.
  - (5) Snow melt.
  - (6) Rain-snow line.
- (b) **Report—** Not later than 180 days after December 27, 2022, the [Administrator](/usc/15/9701.md?p=1) shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a report on—
  - (1) the findings of the gap analysis required by [subsection (a)](#a); and
  - (2) opportunities for additional collaboration among Federal agencies to collect snow-related data to better assess and predict floods and flood impacts.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–316, § 16, Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4417.)