{"data":{"id":"us/33-u.s.c.-3202","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"33 U.S.C. § 3202","heading":"Purposes","body":"The purposes of this chapter are—(1) to improve tsunami detection, forecasting, warnings, research, notification, outreach, and mitigation to protect life and property in the United States; (2) to enhance and modernize the existing United States Tsunami Warning System to increase the accuracy of forecasts and warnings, to ensure full coverage of tsunami threats to the United States with a network of detection assets, and to reduce false alarms; (3) to improve and develop standards and guidelines for mapping, modeling, and assessment efforts to improve tsunami detection, forecasting, warnings, notification, mitigation, resiliency, response, outreach, and recovery; (4) to improve research efforts related to improving tsunami detection, forecasting, warnings, notification, mitigation, resiliency, response, outreach, and recovery; (5) to improve, increase, and develop uniform standards and guidelines for education and outreach activities and ensure that those receiving tsunami warnings and the at-risk public know what to do when a tsunami is approaching, including the warning signs of locally generated tsunami; (6) to provide technical and other assistance to speed international efforts to establish regional tsunami warning systems in vulnerable areas worldwide; (7) to foster resilient communities in the face of tsunami and other similar coastal hazards; and (8) to improve Federal, State, and international coordination for detection, warnings, and outreach for tsunami and other coastal impacts.","path":["Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS","CHAPTER 45—TSUNAMI WARNING AND EDUCATION"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc33@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:59:09Z","sha256":"ad3edf8f32b4baea146686412867c1357323dad881769a48550224c54140906a","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/33-u.s.c.-3201","next":"us/33-u.s.c.-3203"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}