---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3707"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3707"
heading: "NASA ocean acidification activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3707"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring"
---

# §3707. NASA ocean acidification activities

- (a) **Ocean acidification activities—** The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in coordination with other relevant agencies, shall ensure that space-based monitoring assets are used in as productive a manner as possible for monitoring of [ocean acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=2) and [coastal acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=1) and their respective impacts.
- (b) **Program consistency—** The Administrator shall ensure that the Agency’s research and monitoring activities on [ocean acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=2) and [coastal acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=1) are carried out in a manner consistent with the strategic research plan developed by the [Subcommittee](/usc/33/3702.md?p=4) under [section 3704 of this title](/usc/33/3704.md).
- (c) **Coordination—** The Administrator shall encourage coordination of the Agency’s [ocean acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=2) and [coastal acidification](/usc/33/3702.md?p=1) activities with such activities of other nations and international organizations.
- (d) **Requirement—** Researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under this subtitle that collect data described under [section 3705(d) of this title](/usc/33/3705.md?p=d) shall—
  - (1) collect such data in accordance with the standards, protocols, or procedures established pursuant to [section 3705(d) of this title](/usc/33/3705.md?p=d); and
  - (2) submit such data to the Administrator and the [Secretary](/usc/33/3702.md?p=3), in accordance with any rules promulgated by the Administrator or the [Secretary](/usc/33/3702.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12408, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title VI, § 10648, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1681.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(1), substituted “ocean acidification and coastal acidification” for “ocean acidification” wherever appearing in text.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(2), substituted “their respective impacts” for “its impacts”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10648(3), added subsec. (d).