---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18373"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18373"
heading: "Decadal Survey missions implementation for Earth observation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18373"
units:
  - "Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science"
  - "Subchapter VI — Earth Science"
---

# §18373. Decadal Survey missions implementation for Earth observation


The [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) shall undertake to implement, as appropriate, missions identified in the National Research Council’s Earth Science Decadal Survey within the scope of the funds authorized for the Earth Science Mission Directorate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–267, title VII, § 704, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2831.)