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Adds a new section (designated as section 415) to Title IV of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 establishing classification requirements for certain NOAA positions and requiring a 10-year staffing plan submission to Congress.
Section 407 of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (codified at 15 U.S.C. 8546) is transferred into title VII of that Act, inserted after section 701, and redesignated as section 702.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced July 31, 2025 by Rafael Edward Cruz · Last progress July 31, 2025
Makes three targeted changes to improve flood-warning capability and NOAA workforce capacity: reorganizes an existing awards program in the Weather Research and Forecasting framework, requires the development of standards for flash-flood emergency alert systems inside the 100-year floodplain (with attention to communities lacking mobile broadband or other warning coverage), and directs rapid federal classification of certain NOAA positions as “protective service” plus a 10-year staffing plan to sustain forecasts and warnings. Deadlines are set for the alert-standards report (within two years), OMB classification (30 days), and the NOAA 10-year staffing plan (180 days).
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in Senate