---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 60113"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "60113"
heading: "Data policy for Landsat 7"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/60113"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Earth Observations"
  - "Chapter 601 — Land Remote Sensing Policy"
  - "Subchapter II — Landsat"
---

# §60113. Data policy for Landsat 7

- (a) **Landsat 7 Data Policy.—** The [Landsat Program Management](/usc/51/60101.md?p=5), in consultation with other appropriate United States Government agencies, shall develop a data policy for [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8) which should—
  - (1) ensure that [unenhanced data](/usc/51/60101.md?p=12) are available to all users at the [cost of fulfilling user requests](/usc/51/60101.md?p=1);
  - (2) ensure timely and dependable delivery of [unenhanced data](/usc/51/60101.md?p=12) to the full spectrum of civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign users and the [National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive](/usc/51/60101.md?p=9);
  - (3) ensure that the United States retains ownership of all [unenhanced data](/usc/51/60101.md?p=12) generated by [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8);
  - (4) support the development of the commercial market for remote sensing data;
  - (5) ensure that the provision of commercial value-added services based on remote sensing data remains exclusively the function of the private sector; and
  - (6) to the extent possible, ensure that the data distribution system for [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8) is compatible with the Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
- (b) **Additional Data Policy Considerations.—** In addition, the data policy for [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8) may provide for—
  - (1) United States private sector entities to operate ground receiving stations in the United States for [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8) data;
  - (2) other means for direct access by private sector entities to [unenhanced data](/usc/51/60101.md?p=12) from [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8); and
  - (3) the United States Government to charge a per image fee, license fee, or other such fee to entities operating ground receiving stations or distributing [Landsat 7](/usc/51/60101.md?p=8) data.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3413.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 60113 | 15 U.S.C. 5615(a), (b). | Pub. L. 102–555, title I, § 105(a), (b), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4170. |