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S 1515 111th Congress Senate

A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation,…

Official title: A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.

Introduced: July 24, 2009 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
Public Lands and Natural Resources Arctic OceanDepartment of CommerceExecutive agency funding and structureHydrology and hydrography
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Jul 24, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jul 24, 2009
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 Latest action July 24, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations to the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for FY2011-FY2012: (1) to acquire hydrographic data, provide hydrographic services, and conduct coastal change analyses necessary to ensure safe navigation, and to improve the management of coastal change in the Arctic; and (2) to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services in the Arctic necessary to delineate the U.S. extended continental shelf.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1515: A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1515/
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"S. 1515: A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1515/.
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S. 1515, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1515/.
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