124 STAT. 3996 PUBLIC LAW 111–358—JAN. 4, 2011 could be made available to facilitate a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program using commercial orbital platforms; and ‘‘(4) identify the issues that would need to be addressed before NASA could properly assess the merits and feasibility of the program described in paragraph (2).’’. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on October 12, 2010. SEC. 206. DEFINITIONS. In this title: (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Administrator of NASA. (2) NASA.—The term ‘‘NASA’’ means the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration. TITLE III—NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION SEC. 301. OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOP- MENT PROGRAM. Section 4001 of the America COMPETES Act (33 U.S.C. 893) is amended— (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before ‘‘The Adminis- trator’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(b) OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall implement programs and activities— ‘‘(1) to identify emerging and innovative research and development priorities to enhance United States competitive- ness, support development of new economic opportunities based on NOAA research, observations, monitoring modeling, and predictions that sustain ecosystem services; ‘‘(2) to promote United States leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science and competitiveness in the applied uses of such knowledge, including for the development and expansion of economic opportunities; and ‘‘(3) to advance ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, and atmospheric research and development, including potentially transformational research, in collaboration with other relevant Federal agencies, academic institutions, the private sector, and nongovernmental programs, consistent with NOAA’s mission to understand, observe, and model the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere, including the oceans, in an integrated manner. ‘‘(c) REPORT.—No later than 12 months after the date of enact- ment of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, the Administrator, in consultation with the National Science Foundation or other such agencies with mature transformational research portfolios, shall develop and submit a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology that describes NOAA’s strategy for enhancing transformational research in its research and development portfolio to increase United States competitiveness in oceanic and atmospheric science and technology. The report shall— 51 USC 10101 note. 42 USC 18421 note.
