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 Remote-Sensing
Comnercialization 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
A-19.
Please provide us with your views no later than
COB WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1984. ORAL CONIl= ARE ACCEPTABLE.
Direct your questions to William A. Maxwell (395-3890), the
legislative analyst in this office.
Jam s. C. Murr for
Assistant Director for
Legislative Reference
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DEPARTMENT nF Ar:d+ri,1,-1ipe
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Honorabl e? James w R 'S h
Chairman Subconmitte an \ L.
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Natural Resources,,,}Agriculture,
Research. and ,Envei~r.onine it ttie X't' ~` 'r -.d ,
Comm,ittee,:on r Sc.1 e.rce :'and ;Technolo
House ,of,, Repr.esentatiwes 9y ~fi
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Dear' dir. Chai.rman,:,-
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This is in reply to' yoicrrequest of February 13, 1984v for STAT
4836, "To establish a system to promote ~~theuse of land remote-se sing N.R.
satellite data, and for other. purposes,
This Department.has no objection to the enactment of the bill, provided that
section 581, 502(b), and 502(c) are amended to. make it clear that the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Natioh-al and Space Administration are directed to undertake only research 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
commercialization of land remote-sensing 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 aprivate 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 canprehensive 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 commercialization of meteorological ,.sa.tellites`, at'this time.
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This Department endorses those-provisions of thtb'il l that guarantee
non-discriminatory access tol=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 development of technology to monitor."
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Honorable James H. Scheuer
Section 503 specifies that the',
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sell data under the condition that Lsuchtdata:wll.l~t~ot. heepr~oduc_::end t
disseminated by the purchaser. Yt Is4necessar :that t.
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permitted to reproduce digital remote-sensin. gwdataafor'interval`?ii5e"SQ that
data will be available in the event that original. files-.-or cdnputer"tapes
are inadvertently destroyed or' erased. It is also highly desirable that
Federal'-
agenci'es with`in.ra;s'ingledepartment., be,perm,itted to exchange
remote:.sensIng data freely and - thout restriction': or additional Bost in
order to ach`i'eve maximum eff ci?ency in research and operational programs.
We therefore recommend'`that 'sec ti'on -603 be amended to include the following
sentence: Federal'' agencies,1`may6}reprod'uce digital remote-sensing data 'for
internal , usean'd:may,,,tra'nsfer remote-sensing data without. restriction or
additio'nal'= ost'?within'''the federal department of purchase.
The Office "af 'Management, and Budget advises that there is no objection to
the presentation of this-report from the standpoint of the Administration's
programs
Sincerely,
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