[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 153 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 153

             To ensure reliable observation of hurricanes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2017

  Mr. Nelson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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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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