15 USC § 2936 - Scientific assessment

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s2936"
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title: "15 USC § 2936 - Scientific assessment"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "2936"
section_name: "Scientific assessment"
chapter_number: 56
chapter_name: "GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "UNITED STATES GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 101–606, title I, § 106, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3101.)"
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# § 2936. Scientific assessment

On a periodic basis (not less frequently than every 4 years), the Council, through the Committee, shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an assessment which—

**(1)** integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the Program and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings;

**(2)** analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and

**1** analyzes current trends in global change, both human-inducted [^1] and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.

So in original. Probably should be “human-induced”.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 101–606, title I, § 106, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3101.)