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§3201. Definitions — Inbound Citations

33 U.S.C. § 3201

Cited by 36 provisions in release 119-102.

Citations to §3201(1)

  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(a)
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    (a) The Administrator, through the National Weather Service and in consultation with other relevant Administration offices, shall operate a program to provide tsunami detection, forecasting, and warnings for the Pacific and Arctic Ocean regions and for the Atlantic Ocean region, including the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(b)(7)
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    (7) include a cooperative effort among the Administration, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation under which the Director of the United States Geological Survey and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall—
    (A) provide rapid and reliable seismic information to the Administrator from international and domestic seismic networks; and
    (B) support seismic stations installed before April 18, 2017, to supplement coverage in areas of sparse instrumentation;
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(b)(8)
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    (8) provide a capability for the dissemination of warnings, including graphical warning products, to at-risk States, territories, and tsunami communities through rapid and reliable notification to government officials and the public, including utilization of and coordination with existing Federal warning systems, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Radio All Hazards Program and Wireless Emergency Alerts;
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(2)(E)
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    (E) Using data from the Integrated Ocean Observing System of the Administration in coordination with regional associations to calculate new inundation estimates and periodically update existing inundation estimates.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(2)(I)
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    (I) Making data gathered under this chapter and post-warning analyses conducted by the National Weather Service or other relevant Administration offices available to the public.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(4)
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    (4) The Administrator shall coordinate with the forecast offices of the National Weather Service, the centers supported or maintained under paragraph (1), and such program offices of the Administration as the Administrator or the coordinating committee, as established in section 3204(d)2 of this title, consider appropriate to ensure that regional and local forecast offices—
    (A) have the technical knowledge and capability to disseminate tsunami warnings for the communities they serve;
    (B) leverage connections with local emergency management officials for optimally disseminating tsunami warnings and forecasts; and
    (C) implement mass communication tools in effect on the day before April 18, 2017, used by the National Weather Service on such date and newer mass communication technologies as they are developed as a part of the Weather-Ready Nation program of the Administration, or otherwise, for the purpose of timely and effective delivery of tsunami warnings.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(4)(C)
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    (C) implement mass communication tools in effect on the day before April 18, 2017, used by the National Weather Service on such date and newer mass communication technologies as they are developed as a part of the Weather-Ready Nation program of the Administration, or otherwise, for the purpose of timely and effective delivery of tsunami warnings.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(e)(3)
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    (3) ensure that the Administration’s operational tsunami detection equipment is properly maintained.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3205(b)(1)
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    (1) consider other appropriate and cost effective solutions to mitigate the impact of tsunami, including the improvement of near-field and distant tsunami detection and forecasting capabilities, which may include use of a new generation of the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis array, integration of tsunami sensors into commercial and Federal telecommunications cables, and other real-time tsunami monitoring systems and supercomputer capacity of the Administration to develop a rapid tsunami forecast for all United States coastlines;
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206(b)
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    (b) The Administrator, through the National Weather Service and in consultation with other relevant Administration offices, in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, may operate an International Tsunami Information Center to improve tsunami preparedness for all Pacific Ocean nations participating in the International Tsunami Warning System of the Pacific, and may also provide such assistance to other nations participating in a global tsunami warning system established through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. As part of its responsibilities around the world, the Center may—
    (1) monitor international tsunami warning activities around the world;
    (2) assist member states in establishing national warning systems, and make information available on current technologies for tsunami warning systems;
    (3) maintain a library of materials to promulgate knowledge about tsunami in general and for use by the scientific community; and
    (4) disseminate information, including educational materials and research reports.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall designate an existing working group within the Science Advisory Board of the Administration to serve as the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel to provide advice to the Administrator on matters regarding tsunami science, technology, and regional preparedness.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(c)(1)
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    (1) review the activities of the Administration, and other Federal activities as appropriate, relating to tsunami research, detection, forecasting, warning, mitigation, resiliency, and preparation; and
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3208
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    The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in coordination with State and local emergency managers, shall develop and carry out formal outreach activities to improve tsunami education and awareness and foster the development of resilient communities. Outreach activities may include—

Citations to §3201(2)

  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(a)
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    (a) The Administrator, through the National Weather Service and in consultation with other relevant Administration offices, shall operate a program to provide tsunami detection, forecasting, and warnings for the Pacific and Arctic Ocean regions and for the Atlantic Ocean region, including the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(b)(7)(A)
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    (A) provide rapid and reliable seismic information to the Administrator from international and domestic seismic networks; and
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(b)(10)
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    (10) include any technology the Administrator considers appropriate to fulfill the objectives of the program under this section.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall support or maintain centers to support the tsunami warning system required by subsection (c). The Centers1 shall include—
    (A) the National Tsunami Warning Center, located in Alaska, which is primarily responsible for Alaska and the continental United States;
    (B) the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, located in Hawaii, which is primarily responsible for Hawaii, the Caribbean, and other areas of the Pacific not covered by the National Center; and
    (C) any additional forecast and warning centers determined by the National Weather Service to be necessary.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(2)(H)
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    (H) In coordination with the Commandant of the Coast Guard and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, evaluating and recommending procedures for ports and harbors at risk of tsunami inundation, including review of readiness, response, and communication strategies, and data sharing policies, to the maximum extent practicable.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(4)
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    (4) The Administrator shall coordinate with the forecast offices of the National Weather Service, the centers supported or maintained under paragraph (1), and such program offices of the Administration as the Administrator or the coordinating committee, as established in section 3204(d)2 of this title, consider appropriate to ensure that regional and local forecast offices—
    (A) have the technical knowledge and capability to disseminate tsunami warnings for the communities they serve;
    (B) leverage connections with local emergency management officials for optimally disseminating tsunami warnings and forecasts; and
    (C) implement mass communication tools in effect on the day before April 18, 2017, used by the National Weather Service on such date and newer mass communication technologies as they are developed as a part of the Weather-Ready Nation program of the Administration, or otherwise, for the purpose of timely and effective delivery of tsunami warnings.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(5)
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    (5) The Administrator shall—
    (A) develop uniform operational procedures for the centers supported or maintained under paragraph (1), including the use of software applications, checklists, decision support tools, and tsunami warning products that have been standardized across the program supported under this section;
    (B) ensure that processes and products of the warning system operated under subsection (c)—
    (i) reflect industry best practices when practicable;
    (ii) conform to the maximum extent practicable with internationally recognized standards for information technology; and
    (iii) conform to the maximum extent practicable with other warning products and practices of the National Weather Service;
    (C) ensure that future adjustments to operational protocols, processes, and warning products—
    (i) are made consistently across the warning system operated under subsection (c); and
    (ii) are applied in a uniform manner across such warning system;
    (D) establish a systematic method for information technology product development to improve long-term technology planning efforts; and
    (E) disseminate guidelines and metrics for evaluating and improving tsunami forecast models.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(d)(6)
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    (6) The Administrator, through the National Weather Service, shall ensure that resources are available to fulfill the obligations of this chapter. This includes ensuring supercomputing resources are available to run, as rapidly as possible, such computer models as are needed for purposes of the tsunami warning system operated under subsection (c).
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(e)
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    (e) In carrying out this section, the Administrator shall—
    (1) develop requirements for the equipment used to forecast tsunami, including—
    (A) provisions for multipurpose detection platforms;
    (B) reliability and performance metrics; and
    (C) to the maximum extent practicable, requirements for the integration of equipment with other United States and global ocean and coastal observation systems, the global Earth observing system of systems, the global seismic networks, and the Advanced National Seismic System;
    (2) develop and execute a plan for the transfer of technology from ongoing research conducted as part of the program supported or maintained under section 3205 of this title into the program under this section; and
    (3) ensure that the Administration’s operational tsunami detection equipment is properly maintained.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(f)
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    (f) When deploying and maintaining tsunami detection technologies under the program under this section, the Administrator shall—
    (1) identify which assets of other Federal agencies are necessary to support such program; and
    (2) work with each agency identified under paragraph (1)—
    (A) to acquire the agency’s assistance; and
    (B) to prioritize the necessary assets in support of the tsunami forecast and warning program.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(g)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall notify the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives within 30 days of—
    (A) impaired regional forecasting capabilities due to equipment or system failures;
    (B) significant contractor failures or delays in completing work associated with the tsunami forecasting and warning system; and
    (C) the occurrence of a significant tsunami warning.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3203(g)(2)(D)
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    (D) such other findings as the Administrator considers appropriate.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3204(a)
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    (a) The Administrator, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the heads of such other agencies as the Administrator considers relevant, shall conduct a community-based tsunami hazard mitigation program to improve tsunami preparedness and resiliency of at-risk areas in the United States and the territories of the United States.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3204(b)
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    (b) In conducting the program under this section, the Administrator shall establish a coordinating committee comprising representatives of Federal, State, local, and tribal government officials. The Administrator may establish subcommittees to address region-specific issues. The committee shall—
    (1) recommend how funds appropriated for carrying out the program under this section will be allocated;
    (2) ensure that areas described in section 3203(c) of this title in the United States and its territories can have the opportunity to participate in the program;
    (3) provide recommendations to the National Weather Service on how to improve the TsunamiReady program, particularly on ways to make communities more tsunami resilient through the use of inundation maps and other mitigation practices; and
    (4) ensure that all components of the program are integrated with ongoing hazard warning and risk management activities, emergency response plans, and mitigation programs in affected areas, including integrating information to assist in tsunami evacuation route planning.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3205(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall, in consultation with such other Federal agencies, State, tribal, and territorial governments, and academic institutions as the Administrator considers appropriate, the coordinating committee under section 3204(d)1 of this title, and the panel under section 3206a(a) of this title, support or maintain a tsunami research program to develop detection, forecast, communication, and mitigation science and technology, including advanced sensing techniques, information and communication technology, data collection, analysis, assessment for tsunami tracking and numerical forecast modeling, and standards development.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall, in coordination with the Secretary of State and in consultation with such other agencies as the Administrator considers relevant, provide technical assistance, operational support, and training to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations, and such other international entities as the Administrator considers appropriate, as part of the international efforts to develop a fully functional global tsunami forecast and warning system comprised of regional tsunami warning networks.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206(b)
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    (b) The Administrator, through the National Weather Service and in consultation with other relevant Administration offices, in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, may operate an International Tsunami Information Center to improve tsunami preparedness for all Pacific Ocean nations participating in the International Tsunami Warning System of the Pacific, and may also provide such assistance to other nations participating in a global tsunami warning system established through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. As part of its responsibilities around the world, the Center may—
    (1) monitor international tsunami warning activities around the world;
    (2) assist member states in establishing national warning systems, and make information available on current technologies for tsunami warning systems;
    (3) maintain a library of materials to promulgate knowledge about tsunami in general and for use by the scientific community; and
    (4) disseminate information, including educational materials and research reports.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall designate an existing working group within the Science Advisory Board of the Administration to serve as the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel to provide advice to the Administrator on matters regarding tsunami science, technology, and regional preparedness.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(b)(1)
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    (1) The Panel shall be composed of no fewer than 7 members selected by the Administrator from among individuals from academia or State agencies who have academic or practical expertise in physical sciences, social sciences, information technology, coastal resilience, emergency management, or such other disciplines as the Administrator considers appropriate.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(c)(2)
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    (2) submit to the Administrator and such others as the Administrator considers appropriate—
    (A) the findings of the working group with respect to the most recent review conducted under paragraph (1); and
    (B) such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the working group considers appropriate to improve Federal tsunami research, detection, forecasting, warning, mitigation, resiliency, and preparation.
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3206a(d)
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    (d) Not less frequently than once every 4 years, the Administrator 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 the findings and recommendations received by the Administrator under subsection (c)(2).
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3207
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    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this chapter—
  • 33 U.S.C. § 3208
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    The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in coordination with State and local emergency managers, shall develop and carry out formal outreach activities to improve tsunami education and awareness and foster the development of resilient communities. Outreach activities may include—