51 USC § 60506 - Sharing of climate related data

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identifier: "/us/usc/t51/s60506"
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title: "51 USC § 60506 - Sharing of climate related data"
title_number: 51
title_name: "NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS"
section_number: "60506"
section_name: "Sharing of climate related data"
chapter_number: 605
chapter_name: "EARTH SCIENCE"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3426.)"
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# § 60506. Sharing of climate related data

The Administrator shall work to ensure that the Administration’s policies on the sharing of climate related data respond to the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office’s report on climate change research and data-sharing policies and to the recommendations on the processing, distribution, and archiving of data by the National Academies Earth Science Decadal Survey, “Earth Science and Applications from Space”, and other relevant National Academies reports, to enhance and facilitate their availability and widest possible use to ensure public access to accurate and current data on global warming.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3426.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 60506 | 42 U.S.C. 17825(c). | Pub. L. 110–422, title XI, § 1109(c), Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4811. |