[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1008 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1008

             To ensure reliable observation of hurricanes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2017

  Mr. Soto (for himself and Mr. Crist) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
             To ensure reliable observation of hurricanes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring the Reliability of Our 
Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Act''.

SEC. 2. HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT.

    The Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere of the Department of 
Commerce shall secure and maintain secondary backup capability for each 
class of hurricane reconnaissance, research, surveillance, and response 
aircraft sufficient to prevent a single point of failure.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.
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