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33 USC § 883j - Ocean satellite data 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s883j"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 883j - Ocean satellite data"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "883j"
section_name: "Ocean satellite data"
chapter_number: 17
chapter_name: "NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "SURVEYS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 99–272, title VI, § 6082, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 135.)"
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# 1 Ocean satellite data

See References in Text note below.

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The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (hereinafter referred to in this subtitle  as the “Administration”) shall take such actions, including the sponsorship of applied research, as may be necessary to assure the future availability and usefulness of ocean satellite data to the maritime community.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 99–272, title VI, § 6082, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 135.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subtitle, referred to in text, is subtitle H (§§ 6081–6085) of title VI of , , , which enacted this section and , Commerce and Trade, amended  and sections 330e, 2903 and 2904 of Title 15, and repealed . For complete classification of this subtitle to the Code, see Tables.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of Secretary and other officers of Department of Commerce under this section that relate to the Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography to provide aeronautical charts, products, and services for safe and efficient navigation of air commerce transferred to Administrator of Federal Aviation Administration effective , see , Transportation.

### Report on Satellite Oceanography

, , , directed the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology through the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences, in consultation with Federal, academic, and commercial users of remotely sensed data, to consider and develop findings and recommendations regarding the most urgent current needs of oceanographic researchers for remote sensing capabilities and remotely sensed data and the major goals of satellite oceanography for the next 10 years, and, not later than one year after , to submit to Congress a report which described the findings and recommendations of the Committee.