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# 15 U.S.C. § 2902 - Purpose

## Text

It is the purpose of the Congress in this chapter to establish a national climate program that will assist the Nation and the world to understand and respond to natural and man-induced climate processes and their implications.

(Pub. L. 95–367, § 3, Sept. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 601.)