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[CITE: 42USC8906]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
     CHAPTER 97--ACID PRECIPITATION PROGRAM AND CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--ACID PRECIPITATION
 
Sec. 8906. Updated data base on acid content in precipitation; 
        new monitoring site not required
        
    (a)(1) The National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration shall maintain an updated data base 
describing the acid content in precipitation in the United States, using 
information from Federal acid precipitation monitoring sites.
    (2) Such data shall be available to interested parties by Weather 
Service Forecast Offices in the National Weather Service, or through 
such other facilities or means as the Assistant Administrator for 
Weather Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall 
direct, for those areas of the United States where and at such time as 
such information is presently available, within 120 days after November 
17, 1988.
    (3) Where other Federal agencies collect such data in the course of 
carrying out their statutory missions, the heads of those agencies and 
the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
shall arrange for the transfer of such data to the National Weather 
Service.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any 
Federal agency to establish any new acid precipitation monitoring site.

(Pub. L. 100-685, title IV, Sec. 414, Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4101.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989, and not as part of 
the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.
