United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was established in the Department of Commerce by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970 (84 Stat. 2090), effective October 3, 1970. It consolidated the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior and agencies formerly under the abolished Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) of the Department of Commerce, and others.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey, formerly under ESSA, became the National Ocean Survey, October 9, 1970, and the National Ocean Service in 1983. The Weather Bureau, also under ESSA, became the National Weather Service on October 9, 1970. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries by January 1971, had been redesignated the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Marine Sport Fishery Program of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior became a part of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The U.S. Lake Survey, formerly under the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers, was redesignated the Lake Survey Center, and subsequently abolished, June 30, 1976.The National Oceanographic Data Center, formerly under the Department of the Navy was subordinated, along with the National Climatic Center and the National Geophysical Data Center to the Environmental Data Center (subsequently designated the Environmental Data and Information Service, then the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service). The Office of Sea Grant Programs of the National Science Foundation became a staff office of NOAA. The National Data Buoy Project of the U.S. Coast Guard became a component of a NOAA staff office for environmental systems as did the Marine Minerals Technology Center, formerly under the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior.

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