WEATHER

Articles and editorials

French Company To Offer Satellite Images of Earth, 24912 [20SE]

Judy Mann—Weather Biz, 6017 [17MR]

Life-Saving Idea, 25780 [26SE]

Navstar 1 Is Number One!, 25782 [26SE]

Selling the Weather, 25823 [26SE]

U.S. Considers Selling Parts of Weather Service to Private Side, 6016 [17MR]

U.S. Should Keep Weather Satellites, 25823 [26SE]

U.S. Will Give World Its New Air Navigation System, 25781 [26SE]

Will Farm Programs Be Gutted?, 27756 [6OC]

Bills and resolutions

National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 2722)

National Climate Control Act: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 1545)

National STORM program: funding (see H. Con. Res. 203)

National Weather Service: criteria for closing stations (see S. 890; H.R. 2245)

NOAA: atmospheric and satellite programs (see S. 1097)

———atomospheric and satellite programs (see S. 1097)

———authorize appropriations (see H.R. 2800, 2900, 3597)

Satellite systems: oppose sale to private sector (see S. Con. Res. 67; H. Con. Res. 168)

———transfer to private sector (see H.R. 1958)

Factsheets

Navstar Global Positioning System, 25781 [26SE]

Letters

Satellite navigational aids: Senator Percy, 25783 [26SE]

Turning off of heat at Fort Polk, La.: Senators Bumpers and Pryor, 7145 [24MR]

Memorials of legislature

National Weather Service: California, 23737 [12SE], 24347 [15SE], 25045, 25046 [21SE]

Papers

Precipitation Augmentation for Crops Experiment: Illinois State Water Survey, 28983 [21OC]

Proclamations

Groundhog King Philip predicts early spring, Punxsutawney, Pa., Groundhog Club, 1445 [2FE]

Remarks in House

Agriculture weather and fruit frost information program: funding, 9231 [20AP]

Civil meteorological satellites: management transfer (H. Con. Res. 168), 32493-32496, 32503 [14NO], 32778 [15NO]

Civil satellites: sale to private sector, 24746 [19SE], 25822 [26SE]

Drought: economic relief, 27755 [6OC]

Farmers: economic impact of drought conditions, 26200 [28SE]

Flight service stations: closings, 16819, 16821, 16851, 16862 [22JN]

Groundhog prediction: early spring, 1445 [2FE]

National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere: authorize appropriations (H.R. 2722), 9640 [25AP]

National Weather Service: budget request relative to agricultural services, 9306 [20AP]

———funding, 9231 [20AP]

———proposed sale, 12275 [12MY]

NOAA: consolidation of policy management (H.R. 3355), 16304 [16JN]

Satellites: prohibit sale to private industry, 10500 [28AP]

Weather satellites: proposal to sell, 4183 [8MR], 4486 [9MR], 4694 [10MR], 8956 [19AP]

———proposed sale to private industry, 6016 [17MR], 6082 [18MR]

———proposed transfer to private sector, 28832 [21OC]

Weather stations: impact on citrus industry of proposed closings, 3538 [2MR]

Remarks in Senate

Civil meteorological satellites: proposed sale (S. Con. Res. 67), 24590 [19SE]

Landsat and Metsat satellite systems: administration proposal to sell, 5273 [15MR]

NOAA: authorizing certain atmospheric and satellite programs and functions (S. 1097-1102), 9006 [19AP]

———budget cuts (S. Res. 118), 9207 [20AP]

———support (S. Res. 118), 26606 [30SE]

North Carolina: authorize use of certain Oregon Inlet islands for Manteo Bay project (S. 1471), 15619-15620 [14JN]

Satellites: use of navigational aids (S. Con. Res. 69), 25780 [26SE]

Weather Service Offices Protection Act: introduction (S. 890), 6993 [23MR]

Weather stations: criteria for closing and consolidating (S. 890), 6993 [23MR]

Reports

Federal Assistance to States and Communities for Hurricane Preparedness Planning (H. Rept. 98-557), 33583 [17NO]

Statements

Navstar Global Positioning System—Collins User Equipment, 25781 [26SE]

Sale of National Weather Service (excerpt), 12276 [12MY]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 168, management transfer of civil meteorological satellites, 32493 [14NO]

S. 890, Weather Service Offices Protection Act, 6994 [23MR]

S. 1471, authorize use of certain Oregon Inlet, N.C., islands for Manteo Bay project, 15619 [14JN]

S. Con. Res. 67, proposed sale of civil meteorological satellites, 24590 [19SE]

S. Con. Res. 69, use of satellite navigational aids, 25780 [26SE]

S. Res. 118, NOAA budget cuts, 9207 [20AP], 26607 [30SE]

S. Res. 220, emergency assistance for drought losses, 24466 [15SE]