---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 60608"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "60608"
heading: "Space weather benchmarks"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/60608"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Earth Observations"
  - "Chapter 606 — Space Weather"
---

# §60608. Space weather benchmarks


The interagency working group established under [section 60601(c)](/usc/51/60601.md?p=c) shall periodically review and update the benchmarks described in the report of the National Science and Technology Council entitled “Space Weather Phase 1 Benchmarks” and dated June 2018, as necessary, based on—

- (1) any significant new data or advances in scientific understanding that become available; or
- (2) the evolving needs of entities impacted by space weather phenomena.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–181, § 2(b), Oct. 21, 2020, 134 Stat. 892.)