Pub. L. 100-685, tit. IV, sec. 405

Sec. 405. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out its satellite observing systems duties under law, $383,000,000 for fiscal year 1989. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be used to fund those duties relating to data and information services specified by the Act of 1890 and by any other law involving such duties. Such duties include spacecraft procurement, launch, and associated ground station system changes involving polar orbiting and geostationary environmental satellites and land remote-sensing satellites, as well as the operation of such satellites. (b) The authorization provided for under subsection (a) of this section shall be in addition to moneys authorized under the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.) for the purpose of carrying out such duties relating to satellite observing systems.