Pub. L. 100-685, tit. IV, sec. 401

Sec. 401. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out the operations and research duties of the National Weather Service under law, $279,000,000 for fiscal year 1989. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be used to fund those duties relating to National Weather Service operations and research specified by the Act of 1890, the Act of 1974, and any other law involving such duties. Such duties include meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic public warnings and forecasts, as well as applied research in support of such warnings and forecasts.