106 STAT. 4164 PUBLIC LAW 102-555 —OCT. 28, 1992 (9) Because Landsat data are particularly important for national security purposes and global environmental change resecuxh, management responsibilities for the program shomd be transferred from the Department of Commerce to an integrated program mani^ment involving the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (10) Regardless of management responsibilities for the Landsat program, the Nation's oroad civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign policy interests in remote sensing will best be served by ensuring that Landsat remains an undassified proraram that opterates according to the principles of open skies euid nondiscriminatory access. (11) Technological advances aimed at reducing the size and weight of satellite systems hold the potential for dramatic reductions in the cost, and substantial improvements in the capabilities, of future land remote sensing systems, but such technological advances have not been demonstrated for land remote sensing and therefore cannot be relied upon as the sole means of achieving data continuity for the Landsat program. (12) A technology demonstration program involving advanced remote sensing technologies could serve a vital role in determining the design of a follownon spacecraft to Landsat 7, while also helping to determine whether such a spacecraft should be fundea by the United States Government, by the private sector, or by an international consortium. (13) To maximize the value of the Landsat program to the American public, unenhanced Landsat 4 through 6 data should be made ava^able, at a minimum, to United States Government agencies, to global environmental change researchers, and to omer resean^ers who are financially supported by the United States Government, at the cost of fulfilling user requests, and unenhanced Landsat 7 data should be made available to all users at the cost of fulfilling user requests. (14) To stimulate development of the commercial market for imenhanced data and value-added services, the United States Government should adopt a data policy for Landsat 7 which allows competition within the private sector for distribution of unenhanced data and value-added services. (15) Development of the remote sensing market and the provision of commercial value-added services based on remote sensing data should remain exclusively the function of the private sector. (16) It is in the best interest of the United States to maintain a permanent, comprehensive Government archive of global Landsat and other land remote sensing data for longterm monitoring and study of the changing global environment. 15 USC 5602. SEC.3.DEFINrnONa In this Act, the following definitions apply: (1) The term "Administrator^ means the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2) The term "cost of fulfilling user requests" means the incremental costs associated with providing product generation, reproduction, and distribution of unenhanced data in response to user requests and shall not include any acquisition, amortiza-
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