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1 technological capabilities of the National Weather Service. 
2 Such report shall include— 
(1) preliminary cost estimates and a preliminary 
deployment schedule for the next generation radar 
* system; 
(2) a plan for improvement of mesoscale weather 
forecasting over the next decade; and 
(3) a ten-year plan for the reorganization and con- 
solidation of the Weather Service Forecast Offices and 
the Weather Service Offices. The plan shall include a 
list of the criteria to be used in determining those of- 
fices that are to be closed or consolidated during the 
insane period. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL CLIMATE PROGRAM 
Sec. 301. This title may be cited as the “National Cli- 
mate Program Amendments of 1982”’. 
SEC. 302. Section 4 of the National Climate Program 
Act (15 U.S.C. 2904) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as 
paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively, and 
(2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redes- 
ignated, the following new paragraph: 
“(1) The term ‘Board’ means the Climate Pro- 
gram Policy Board.”’. 
