National Telecommunications and Information Administration

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For further information, contact Off‌i ce of Marine
and Aviation Operations, Suite 500, 8403 Colesville
Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910. Phone, 301–713–
1045.
Sources of Information
Publications and Resources The
Administration provides technical
memoranda, technical reports,
monographs, nautical and aeronautical
charts, coastal zone maps, data tapes,
and a wide variety of raw and processed
environmental data. Information on
NOAA products is available through
the Internet at www.noaa.gov. Contact
the Off‌i ce of Public and Constituent
Affairs, Fourteenth Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
Phone, 202–482–6090. Fax, 202–482–
3154.
For further information, contact the Off‌i ce of Public Affairs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202–482–4190. Internet, http://
www.noaa.gov.
National Telecommunications and Information
Administration
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230
Phone, 202–428–1840. Internet, http://www.ntia.doc.gov.
Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Information and Administrator
LAWRENCE E. STRICKLING
[For the National Telecommunications and Information Administration statement of organization, see the
Federal Register of June 5, 1978, 43 FR 24348]
The National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) was
established in 1978 by Reorganization
Plan No. 1 of 1977 (5 U.S.C. app.)
and Executive Order 12046 of March
27, 1978 (3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p.
158), by combining the Off‌i ce of
Telecommunications Policy of the
Executive Off‌i ce of the President and
the Off‌i ce of Telecommunications
of the Department of Commerce to
form a new agency reporting to the
Secretary of Commerce. NTIA operates
under the authority of the National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration Organization Act (47
U.S.C. 901).
NTIA’s principal responsibilities
and functions include serving as the
principal executive branch adviser to
the President on telecommunications
and information policy; developing
and presenting U.S. plans and policies
at international communications
conferences and related meetings;
prescribing policies for and managing
Federal use of the radio frequency
spectrum; serving as the principal
Federal telecommunications research
and engineering laboratory, through
NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication
Sciences, headquartered in Boulder, CO;
administering Federal programs to assist
telecommunication facilities, public
safety organizations, and the general
public with the transition to digital
broadcasting; providing grants through
the Broadband Technology Opportunities
Program to increase broadband
accessibility in underserved areas of
the United States; and providing grants
through the Public Telecommunications
Facilities Program to extend delivery or
public telecommunications services to
U.S. citizens, to increase ownership and
management by women and minorities,
and to strengthen the capabilities of
existing public broadcasting stations to
provide telecommunications services.
Sources of Information
Publications Since 1970, several
hundred technical reports and
memoranda, special publications,
contractor reports, and other information
products have been published by

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