§ 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.