[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR950.2]

[Page 289]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 950_ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 950.2  Environmental Data and Information Service (EDIS).

    The Environmental Data and Information Service is the first Federal 
organization created specifically to manage environmental data and 
information. EDIS acquires, processes, archives, analyzes, and 
disseminates worldwide environmental (atmospheric, marine, solar, and 
solid Earth) data and information for use by commerce, industry, the 
scientific and engineering communities, and the general public, as well 
as by Federal, State, and local governments. It also provides experiment 
design and data management support to large-scale environmental 
experiments; assesses the impact of environmental fluctuations on food 
production, energy production and consumption, environmental quality, 
and other economic systems; and manages or provides functional guidance 
for NOAA's scientific and technical publication and library activities. 
In addition, EDIS operates related World Data Center-A subcenters and 
participates in other international data and information exchange 
programs. To carry out this mission, EDIS operates a network of 
specialized service centers and a computerized environmental data and 
information retrieval service.