Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 13, 2013)
Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Tsunami Warning and Education Act to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), through the National Weather Service, to establish or maintain a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center in Puerto Rico. (The responsibilities of tsunami warning centers include monitoring and evaluating earthquakes, disseminating forecasts and tsunami warning bulletins to federal, state, and local governments as well as the public, and ensuring information sharing between forecasters and emergency management officials.)
What just happenedMar 21, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 13, 2013
- Mar 21, 2013Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
- Mar 13, 2013IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
- Mar 13, 2013IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 13, 2013IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House