---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16362"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16362"
heading: "Barrow Geophysical Research Facility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16362"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part I — Research Administration and Operations"
---

# §16362. Barrow Geophysical Research Facility

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Commerce, in consultation with the [Secretaries](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Energy and the Interior, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Science Foundation, and the [Administrator](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), shall establish a joint research facility in Barrow, Alaska, to be known as the “Barrow Geophysical Research Facility”, to support scientific research activities in the Arctic.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretaries](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Commerce, Energy, and the Interior, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Science Foundation, and the [Administrator](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for the planning, design, [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7), and support of the Barrow Geophysical Research Facility, $61,000,000.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 998, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 916.)