Dark and Quiet Skies Act of 2024

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4952 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4952 To establish a Center of Excellence for Dark and Quiet Skies, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 1, 2024 Mr. Hickenlooper (for himself and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish a Center of Excellence for Dark and Quiet Skies, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Dark and Quiet Skies Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Act is to increase participation and collaboration between Federal agencies and the private sector to research, develop, and deploy mitigation techniques on a voluntary basis to protect the integrity of federally funded scientific research observing the s…