shall maintain a Committee within the Councils to develop and approve procedural directives, guides, or handbooks relevant to management of data and information, including commercial data, and coordinate data governance and management practices across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to promote consistent processes. (f) Authorization of appropriations (1) In general There are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out this section. (2) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Under Secretary should seek to enter into contracts or other appropriate agreements that enable the expenditure, to the maximum extent practicable, of amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available in a fiscal year to carry out this section. (g) Data and hosted payloads Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Commerce may enter into agreements relating to the following: (1) The purchase of weather and environmental data and services through contracts with commercial data and service providers. (2) The placement of weather instruments on co-hosted Federal, international, or private space, airborne, maritime, or ground platforms. (h) Ombudsman The Under Secretary shall establish or designate at least one Ombudsman position within the Commercial Data Program to implement the recommendations of the Observing System Council under subsection (e) related to commercial weather and environmental data and services acquisitions. Such an Ombudsman shall act as the liaison between commercial data and service providers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with respect to receiving recommendations and resolving issues related to engagement, testing, contracting, or other areas related to the Administration’s efforts to acquire commercial weather and environmental data and services. (i) Report Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this section, the Under Secretary shall submit to the