 Conducting an OSSE would have been required before the acquisition of major government-owned or government-leased operational observing systems, before the purchase of new commercially provided data critical to forecast accuracy, and for any existing commercially provided observing system data contracts exceeding $15 million.Permits OSSEs to be conducted on existing observing systems where such data costs NOAA in excess of $20 million.The Weather Forecasting Improvement Act of 2013 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on June 18, 2013 by Republican Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma's 1st congressional district.