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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 691
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 115-404
NATIONAL GEOLOGIC MAPPING ACT REAUTHORIZATION
ACT
DECEMBER 4, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1787]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1787) to reauthorize the National Geologic
Mapping Act of 1992, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1787 is to reauthorize the National Geologic
Mapping Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-285).
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992 established the Na-
tional Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP or Pro-
gram). The Program is run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
and produces geologic maps for the United States. Geologic maps
are a multipurpose, basic data set that are used by public and pri-
vate entities for resource exploration and extraction; natural haz-
ards identification and mitigation; ground and surface water man-
agement; infrastructure development; environmental protection;
and Federal land management. For example, NCGMP funds have
been used to examine the headwaters of the Missouri River in the
Midwest, ecosystem health in Maryland, the San Andreas Fault in
California, and mineral deposits in Nevada and Alaska.
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