[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR946.1]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 946_MODERNIZATION OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 946.1  Purpose.









Sec.

946.1 Purpose.

946.2 Definitions.

946.3 Notification of change of operations and restructuring.

946.4 Menu of services.

946.5 Change in operations--commissioning and decommissioning.

946.6 Change in operations--transferring responsibility and moving field 

          offices.

946.7 Preparation of proposed certification for restructuring.

946.8 Review of proposed certification for restructuring.

946.9 Certification of restructuring.

946.10 Liaison officer.



Appendix A to Part 946--National Weather Service Modernization Criteria

Appendix B to Part 946--Airport Tables



    Authority: Title VII of Pub. L. 102-567, 106 Stat. 4303 15 U.S.C. 

313 note



    Source: 58 FR 64091, Dec. 3, 1993, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) This part sets forth the procedures for certification by the 

Secretary of Commerce that the closure, consolidation, automation or 

relocation of any field office of the National Weather Service (NWS) 

pursuant to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for the 

Modernization of the NWS will not result in any degradation of weather 

services. Section 706 of Pub. L. 102-567 requires that no such field 

office be closed, consolidated, automated, or relocated until such 

certification is made. This part distinguishes these modernization 

activities which require certification from those changes in operations 

at a field office which do not require certification.

    (b) This part, including specifically these sections which specify 

when certifications are required, is intended to promote confidence that 

public safety is being adequately considered during the modernization 

process. While some of the terms used in these regulations may be 

identical to those used by the Office of Personnel Management, the 

General Services Administration, or by NOAA in personnel regulations, 

this part does not affect or supersede those regulations. In particular, 

a determination that the move of a field office is not a ``relocation'' 

for purposes of these regulations does not affect an employee's rights 

to relocation assistance, discontinued service retirement, severance 

pay, or grade and pay retention.