USDA PROPOSED REPORT ON H.R. 4836/LAND REMOTE-SENSING COMMERCIALIZATION ACT OF 1984

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• Publication Date: March 2, 1984
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SUBJECT: USDA proposed report on H.R. 4836/Land Reirote-Sensing
? Qomttiercialization Act of 1984
The office of management and Budget requests the views of your
agency on the above subject before advising on its relationship
to the program of the President, in accordance with OMB Circular QC,C
A-19.
Please provide us with your views no later than
COB WEDNESDAY, Nei 7, 1984. ORAL Cc4ENTS ARE ACCEPTABLE.
Direct your questions to William A. Maxwell (395-3890),
legislative analyst in this office.
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This is in reply to your` request of February 13, 1984, for a report on N.R.
4836, "To establish a system to promote "the use of land remote-sensing
satellite data, and for other-purposes,
This Department has no objection to the enactment of the bill, provided that
section 501, 502(b), and 502(c) are amended to make it clear that the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and and Space Administration are directed to undertake only rresearch andonautics
development activities with respect to land remote-sensing and that section
603 be clarified to permit Federal agencies to reproduce and exchange data
without restrictions and without additional payment to the' system operator.
The bill provides guidance to the United States Government in promoting.
coamercialization of land remote?sensfng from space with a framework for the
gradual transition of civil land remote-sensing satellites from the Federal
sector to private ownership and operation. Key provisions of the bill
enable the Secretary of Commerce to contract with a private sector party to
operate the existing United States civil land remote-sensing system and to
contract with a'private sector party for data from land remote-sensing
systems that are established as successors to the existing
government-operated system. The bill authorizes the Secretary of Commerce
to license qualified private sector parties to operate civil remote-sensing
space systems and provides for the regulation of such systems. The bill
provides for a comprehensive program of research and development: of
remote-sensing.-from space and contains general provisions for dissemination
and archiving of remote-sensing data and for ensuring that national security
concerns and international commitments of the United States are met. The
bill prohibits comercialization of meteorological \satellites' at`this time.
This Department endorses those provisions of the"bill that guarantee
non-discriminatory access to-remote-sensing data`and supports'the concept
implicitly established in the bill that commercial systems will not be
subsidized by governmental users of data.
Title V of the bill is concerned with research and development and we.
believe it is important that it be limited to that subject. We therefore
recommend that references in sections 501, 502(b), and 502(c) to "research
and monitoring" or "research, technology, and monitoring" be amended to read
"research and level onrant of torhnnl nnt" *- r
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Honorable James H. Scheue,
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Section. '603 specifies that f the, f',: i bland '.'remote.'
-sensf ng system may
sel 1 ' data under the condition that Lsuc:data,will~aot be.;reproduced -andi
disseminated by the purchaise~. It ,is. necessar :that.
permitted to reproduce digital remote=sensfnj~date n~ ter nse so that
data will be available in the? event that original. files or canputer''tapes
are inadvertently destroyed or erased. it is also highly desirable that
Federal'agenct'es"withint:Wa single ,department, be. permitted to exchange
mote-sensing data `fr eel
're yand without restriction'or additional ? cost in
order to achleve~maximuin'effiefIency: in research. and operational programs.
We therefore recommerid'tthat sectl on 603 be amended to include the following
sentence:' Fed'eraly'agendas"may'`reproduce digital remote-sensing data for
internal - u$e 'and' may ;transfer remote-sensing data without restriction or
additional = osf'-within''1the Federal department of purchase.
The Office of Management. and Budget advises that there is no objection to
the presentatioq of this.report ,fran the standpoint of the Administration's
proarams_
Sincerely,
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