text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Weather and Oceans Resources 
  Realignment Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION TO 
                DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
  
      (a) Transfer of Administration.--The National Oceanic and 
  Atmospheric Administration is transferred to the Department of the 
  Interior.
      (b) Transfer of Functions.--All functions that are authorized to be 
  performed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
  immediately before the enactment of this Act are transferred to the 
  Secretary of the Interior.
      (c) Maintenance as Separate Entity.--The National Oceanic and 
  Atmospheric Administration, including all functions of the Secretary of 
  the Interior relating thereto, shall be maintained as a distinct entity 
  in the Department of the Interior.
  
  SEC. 3. REFERENCES.
  
      Any reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule, 
  regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or 
  pertaining to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, any 
  agency or other component of such administration, or a function 
  performed by such administration immediately before the enactment of 
  this Act--
              (1) to the Secretary of Commerce or another officer of the 
          Department of Commerce is deemed to refer to the Secretary of 
          the Interior; or
              (2) to the Department of Commerce is deemed to refer to the 
          Department of the Interior.
  
  SEC. 4. EXERCISE OF AUTHORITIES.
  
      Except as otherwise provided by law, a Federal official to whom a 
  function is transferred by this Act may, for purposes of performing the 
  function, exercise all authorities under any other provision of law 
  that were available with respect to the performance of that function to 
  the official responsible for the performance of the function 
  immediately before the effective date of the transfer of the function 
  under this Act.
  
  SEC. 5. SAVINGS PROVISIONS.
  
      (a) Legal Documents.--All orders, determinations, rules, 
  regulations, permits, grants, loans, contracts, agreements, 
  certificates, licenses, and privileges--
              (1) that have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to 
          become effective by the President, the Secretary of Commerce, 
          any officer or employee of any office transferred by this Act, 
          or any other Government official, or by a court of competent 
          jurisdiction, in the performance of any function that is 
          transferred by this Act, and
              (2) that are in effect on the effective date of such 
          transfer (or become effective after such date pursuant to their 
          terms as in effect on such effective date),
  shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, 
  terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by 
  the President, any other authorized official, a court of competent 
  jurisdiction, or operation of law.
      (b) Proceedings.--This Act shall not affect any proceedings or any 
  application for any benefits, service, license, permit, certificate, or 
  financial assistance pending on the date of the enactment of this Act 
  before an office transferred by this Act, but such proceedings and 
  applications shall be continued. Orders shall be issued in such 
  proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be 
  made pursuant to such orders, as if this Act had not been enacted, and 
  orders issued in any such proceeding shall continue in effect until 
  modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized 
  official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. 
  Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to prohibit the 
  discontinuance or modification of any such proceeding under the same 
  terms and conditions and to the same extent that such proceeding could 
  have been discontinued or modified if this Act had not been enacted.
      (c) Suits.--This Act shall not affect suits commenced before the 
  date of the enactment of this Act, and in all such suits, proceeding 
  shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same manner 
  and with the same effect as if this Act had not been enacted.
      (d) Nonabatement of Actions.--No suit, action, or other proceeding 
  commenced by or against the Department of Commerce or the Secretary of 
  Commerce, or by or against any individual in the official capacity of 
  such individual as an officer or employee of an office transferred by 
  this Act, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this Act.
      (e) Continuance of Suits.--If any Government officer in the 
  official capacity of such officer is party to a suit with respect to a 
  function of the officer, and under this Act such function is 
  transferred to any other officer or office, then such suit shall be 
  continued with the other officer or the head of such other office, as 
  applicable, substituted or added as a party.
      (f) Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review.--Except as 
  otherwise provided by this Act, any statutory requirements relating to 
  notice, hearings, action upon the record, or administrative or judicial 
  review that apply to any function transferred by this Act shall apply 
  to the exercise of such function by the head of the Federal agency, and 
  other officers of the agency, to which such function is transferred by 
  this Act.
  
  SEC. 6. TRANSFER OF ASSETS.
  
      Except as otherwise provided in this Act, so much of the personnel, 
  property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, 
  allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be 
  made available in connection with a function transferred to an official 
  or agency by this Act shall be available to the official or the head of 
  that agency, respectively, at such time or times as the Director of the 
  Office of Management and Budget directs for use in connection with the 
  functions transferred.
  
  SEC. 7. DELEGATION AND ASSIGNMENT.
  
      Except as otherwise expressly prohibited by law or otherwise 
  provided in this Act, an official to whom functions are transferred 
  under this Act (including the head of any office to which functions are 
  transferred under this Act) may delegate any of the functions so 
  transferred to such officers and employees of the office of the 
  official as the official may designate, and may authorize successive 
  redelegations of such functions as may be necessary or appropriate. No 
  delegation of functions under this section or under any other provision 
  of this Act shall relieve the official to whom a function is 
  transferred under this Act of responsibility for the administration of 
  the function.
  
  SEC. 8. AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 
                WITH RESPECT TO FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED.
  
      (a) Determinations.--If necessary, the Director shall make any 
  determination of the functions that are transferred under this Act.
      (b) Incidental Transfers.--The Director, at such time or times as 
  the Director shall provide, may make such determinations as may be 
  necessary with regard to the functions transferred by this Act, and to 
  make such additional incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, 
  liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended 
  balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other 
  funds held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available 
  in connection with such functions, as may be necessary to carry out the 
  provisions of this Act. The Director shall provide for such further 
  measures and dispositions as may be necessary to effectuate the 
  purposes of this Act.
  
  SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.
  
      For purposes of this Act--
              (1) the term ``function'' includes any duty, obligation, 
          power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, activity, 
          or program; and
              (2) the term ``office'' includes any office, 
          administration, agency, bureau, institute, council, unit, 
          organizational entity, or component thereof.
target: Weather and Oceans Resources Realignment Act - Transfers all functions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Department of the Interior.
feat_title: To transfer the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Department of the Interior.