---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3206a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3206a"
heading: "Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3206a"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Tsunami Warning and Education"
---

# §3206a. Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel

- (a) **Designation—** The [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) shall designate an existing working group within the Science Advisory Board of the [Administration](/usc/33/3201.md?p=1) to serve as the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel to provide advice to the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) on matters regarding tsunami science, technology, and regional preparedness.
- (b) **Membership—**
  - (1) **Composition—** The Panel shall be composed of no fewer than 7 members selected by the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) 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](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) considers appropriate.
  - (2) **Federal employment—** No member of the Panel may be a Federal employee.
- (c) **Responsibilities—** Not less frequently than once every 4 years, the Panel shall—
  - (1) review the activities of the [Administration](/usc/33/3201.md?p=1), and other Federal activities as appropriate, relating to tsunami research, detection, forecasting, warning, mitigation, resiliency, and preparation; and
  - (2) submit to the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) and such others as the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) considers appropriate—
    - (A) the findings of the working group with respect to the most recent review conducted under [paragraph (1)](#c-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.
- (d) **Reports to Congress—** Not less frequently than once every 4 years, the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) 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](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) under [subsection (c)(2)](#c-2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–479, title VIII, § 808, as added Pub. L. 115–25, title V, § 508(a)(2), Apr. 18, 2017, 131 Stat. 125.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 808 of Pub. L. 109–479 was renumbered section 809 and is classified to section 3207 of this title.