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00238 - [A07516441
(Efficiences Available through Improved Operations of National
Weather Service Offices]. CED-77-41; B-1332,2. March 9, 1977. 10
pp.
Report to Secretary, Department of Commerce; by Henry Esr.hwege,
Directcr, Comiity and Economic Development Div.
Issue Area: Science and Technology 12000).
Contact: Community and Economic Dev,.lopment Div.
Budget Function: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy:
Other Natural Resources (306).
Organization Concerned: National leather Service; Fede.l
Aviation Administration.
congressional Relevance: House Committee ou Science and
Tecbnology; Senate Committee on Commerce.
A survey was conducted of the activities of the
National Weather Service (NVS)e with pjarticular attention paid
to local weather forecasts, routine weather briefings provided
to general aviation pilots, and operation of weather observation
stations. Findings/Conclusions: About 170 of the 209 Weather
Service offices issue local forecats for their immediate arc is
which are adaptations of larger zoLe forecasts and cover the
same time period. The need for local weather forecasts in
certain areas is questionable. If local forecasts were
discontinued cxcept in the Western Ragion, about $2 million
could be saved annually. Both the NVS and the Federal Aviation
Administration (I&A) provide route weather brih2lings for general
aviation pilots. As such as $3.3 million of INS staff resources
could be made available for other purposes if this duplication
in services were removed. NNS's substation network needs
improvement; a comprehensive evaluation is needed of the
climatology and hydrology substation networks. Recommendations:
The Secretary of Commerce should: reevaluate the need for
Weather Service Offices to routinely provide local forecasts to
the Eastern, Central, and Southern Rcgions, and discontinue this
practice where no clearly useful purpose is served by local
forecasts; and detersne which Western Regicn offices should
discontinue local forecasts. In consultation with the FAA, tie
Secretary should reevaluate the need for maintaining duplic',tive
weather briefing services for general aviation pilots, and
reevaluate the justification for the -umber and location cf
existing substations. (RF.S)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaabtn0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)