[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: 15CFR950.2]



[Page 288]

 

                  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.