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§ 1310. —  Commerce Department: navigation and weather information.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 44USC1310]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
              CHAPTER 13--PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS
 
Sec. 1310. Commerce Department: navigation and weather 
        information
        
    The Secretary of Commerce may cause to be printed the number of 
copies of tide tables, coast pilots, and other special publications 
relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Weather Bureau maps, charts, 
bulletins of not more than one hundred octavo pages, and minor reports 
of the Weather Bureau, he considers for the best interest of the 
Government.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1267.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 213 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 
23, Sec. 89, 28 Stat. 622; Mar. 13, 1896, No. 23, 29 Stat. 466; Mar. 3, 
1925, ch. 421, Sec. 4, 43 Stat. 1106; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, Sec. 8, 
eff. June 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1234; Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 
13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318).
    This section incorporates only parts of former section 213 relating 
to Coast and Geodetic Survey and Weather Bureau. The balance will be 
found in sections 1102, 1116, 1302, 1308, 1309, 1336 of the revision.

                         Change of Name

    Weather Bureau of Department of Commerce consolidated with Coast and 
Geodetic Survey to form a new agency in Department of Commerce to be 
known as Environmental Science Services Administration and office of 
Chief of Weather Bureau abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. 
July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out in the Appendix to 
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Functions of Bureau and 
Chief of Bureau transferred to Secretary of Commerce by the Plan.
    Environmental Science Services Administration abolished by Reorg. 
Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, 
which created National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 
Department of Commerce. By Department Organization Order 25-5A, 
republished 39 F.R. 27486, Secretary of Commerce delegated to NOAA his 
functions relating to Weather Bureau. By order of Acting Associate 
Administrator of NOAA, organization name of Weather Bureau changed to 
National Weather Service. By order of Acting Associate Administrator of 
NOAA, 35 F.R. 19249, Dec. 19, 1970, Coast and Geodetic Survey 
redesignated National Ocean Survey. For further details, see 
Codification note set out under section 311 of Title 15, Commerce and 
Trade.



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