33 USC § 3707 - NASA ocean acidification activities

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s3707"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 3707 - NASA ocean acidification activities"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "3707"
section_name: "NASA ocean acidification activities"
chapter_number: 50
chapter_name: "FEDERAL OCEAN ACIDIFICATION RESEARCH AND MONITORING"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12408, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title VI, § 10648, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1681.)"
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# § 3707. NASA ocean acidification activities

**(a)** **Ocean acidification activities** The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in coordination with other relevant agencies, shall ensure that space-based monitoring assets are used in as productive a manner as possible for monitoring of ocean acidification and coastal acidification and their respective impacts.

**(b)** **Program consistency** section 3704 of this title

The Administrator shall ensure that the Agency’s research and monitoring activities on ocean acidification and coastal acidification are carried out in a manner consistent with the strategic research plan developed by the Subcommittee under .

**(c)** **Coordination** The Administrator shall encourage coordination of the Agency’s ocean acidification and coastal acidification activities with such activities of other nations and international organizations.

**(d)** **Requirement** Researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under this subtitle that collect data described under section 3705(d) of this title shall—

**(1)** collect such data in accordance with the standards, protocols, or procedures established pursuant to section 3705(d) of this title; and

**(2)** submit such data to the Administrator and the Secretary, in accordance with any rules promulgated by the Administrator or the Secretary.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12408, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title VI, § 10648, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1681.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—, substituted “ocean acidification and coastal acidification” for “ocean acidification” wherever appearing in text.

Subsec. (a). , substituted “their respective impacts” for “its impacts”.

Subsec. (d). , added subsec. (d).