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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 644 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control |
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| 6 | 6 | | Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY23, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ONAMICI(for herself and Mr. JOYCEof Ohio) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech- |
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| 12 | 12 | | nology, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a pe- |
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| 13 | 13 | | riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con- |
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| 14 | 14 | | sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com- |
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| 15 | 15 | | mittee concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To amend the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research |
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| 18 | 18 | | and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal |
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| 19 | 19 | | blooms, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Harmful Algal Bloom 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 2025’’. 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | AND HYPOXIA RESEARCH AND CONTROL ACT 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | OF 1998. 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (a) A |
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| 33 | 33 | | SSESSMENTS.— 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) I |
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| 35 | 35 | | N GENERAL.—Section 603 of the Harmful 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 4001) is amended— 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (A) in the section heading, by striking 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘ |
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| 40 | 40 | | ASSESSMENTS ’’ and inserting ‘‘TASK 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | FORCE, ASSESSMENTS , AND ACTION 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | STRATEGY’’; 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (B) in subsection (a)— 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (i) by redesignating paragraphs (13) 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and (14) as paragraphs (14) and (15), re-14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | spectively; and 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (ii) by inserting after paragraph (12) 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | the following: 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(13) the Department of Energy;’’; 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (C) by striking subsections (b), (c), (d), 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (e), (g), (h), and (i) and redesignating sub-20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | section (f) as subsection (b); 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (D) in subsection (b), as so redesignated— 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (i) in paragraph (1), in the first sen-23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | tence, by striking ‘‘coastal waters including 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the Great Lakes’’ and inserting ‘‘marine, 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | estuarine, and freshwater systems’’; and 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (ii) in paragraph (2)— 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (I) by amending subparagraph 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (A) to read as follows: 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(A) examine— 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(i) the causes and ecological con-5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | sequences of hypoxia on marine and aquat-6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ic species in their environments; and 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(ii) the costs of hypoxia, including 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | impacts on food safety and security;’’; 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (II) by redesignating subpara-10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | graphs (B), (C), and (D) as subpara-11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | graphs (D), (E), and (F), respectively; 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (III) by inserting after subpara-13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | graph (A) the following: 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(B) examine the effect of other environ-15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | mental stressors on hypoxia; 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘(C) evaluate alternatives for reducing, 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | mitigating, and controlling hypoxia and its envi-18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ronmental impacts;’’; and 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (IV) in subparagraph (E), as re-20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | designated by subclause (II), by strik-21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ing ‘‘hypoxia modeling and monitoring 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | data’’ and inserting ‘‘hypoxia mod-23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | eling, forecasting, and monitoring and 24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | observation data’’; and 25 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (E) by adding at the end the following: 1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(c) A |
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| 91 | 91 | | CTIONSTRATEGY AND SCIENTIFICASSESS-2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | MENT FORMARINE ANDFRESHWATERHARMFULALGAL 3 |
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| 93 | 93 | | B |
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| 94 | 94 | | LOOMS.— 4 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 96 | 96 | | N GENERAL.—Not less frequently than 5 |
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| 97 | 97 | | once every 5 years, the Task Force shall complete 6 |
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| 98 | 98 | | and submit to Congress an action strategy for harm-7 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ful algal blooms in the United States. 8 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 101 | 101 | | LEMENTS.—Each Action Strategy 9 |
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| 102 | 102 | | shall— 10 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(A) examine, and include a scientific as-11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | sessment of, marine and freshwater harmful 12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | algal blooms, including such blooms— 13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | ‘‘(i) in the Great Lakes; 14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | ‘‘(ii) in the upper reaches of estuaries; 15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | ‘‘(iii) in freshwater lakes and rivers; 16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(iv) in coastal and marine waters; 17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | and 18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ‘‘(v) that originate in freshwater lakes 19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | or rivers and migrate to coastal waters; 20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | ‘‘(B) examine the causes, ecological con-21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | sequences or physiological consequences on 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | wildlife function, and economic or cultural im-23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | pacts, including food safety and security and 24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | subsistence use, of harmful algal blooms; 25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(C) examine the effect of other environ-1 |
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| 122 | 122 | | mental stressors on harmful algal blooms; 2 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(D) examine potential methods to pre-3 |
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| 124 | 124 | | vent, control, and mitigate harmful algal blooms 4 |
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| 125 | 125 | | and the potential ecological, subsistence use, 5 |
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| 126 | 126 | | and economic costs and benefits of such meth-6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ods; 7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | ‘‘(E) identify priorities for research needed 8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | to advance techniques and technologies to de-9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | tect, predict, monitor, respond to, and minimize 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | the occurrence, duration, and severity of harm-11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ful algal blooms, including recommendations to 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | eliminate significant gaps in harmful algal 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | bloom forecasting, monitoring, and observation 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | data; 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(F) evaluate progress made by, and the 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | needs of, activities and actions of the Task 17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | Force to prevent, control, and mitigate harmful 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | algal blooms; 19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | ‘‘(G) identify ways to improve coordination 20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | and prevent unnecessary duplication of effort 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | among Federal agencies with respect to re-22 |
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| 143 | 143 | | search on harmful algal blooms; and 23 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ‘‘(H) include regional chapters relating to 24 |
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| 145 | 145 | | the requirements described in this paragraph in 25 |
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| 149 | 149 | | order to highlight geographically and eco-1 |
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| 150 | 150 | | logically diverse locations with significant eco-2 |
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| 151 | 151 | | logical, subsistence use, cultural, and economic 3 |
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| 152 | 152 | | impacts from harmful algal blooms. 4 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ‘‘(d) C |
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| 154 | 154 | | ONSULTATION.—In carrying out subsections 5 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (b) and (c), the Task Force shall consult with— 6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(1) States, Indian tribes, and local govern-7 |
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| 157 | 157 | | ments; and 8 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘(2) appropriate industries (including fisheries, 9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | agriculture, and fertilizer), academic institutions, 10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | and nongovernmental organizations with relevant ex-11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | pertise.’’. 12 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (2) C |
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| 163 | 163 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of con-13 |
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| 164 | 164 | | tents in section 2 of the Coast Guard Authorization 14 |
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| 165 | 165 | | Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383; 112 Stat. 3412; 15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | 136 Stat. 1268) is amended by striking the item re-16 |
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| 167 | 167 | | lating to section 603 and inserting the following: 17 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘Sec. 603. Task Force, assessments, and Action Strategy.’’. |
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| 169 | 169 | | (3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 102 18 |
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| 170 | 170 | | of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amend-19 |
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| 171 | 171 | | ments Act of 2004 (33 U.S.C. 4001a) is amended 20 |
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| 172 | 172 | | by striking ‘‘In developing’’ and all that follows 21 |
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| 173 | 173 | | through ‘‘management.’’. 22 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (b) N |
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| 175 | 175 | | ATIONALHARMFULALGALBLOOM ANDHY-23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | POXIAPROGRAM.—Section 603A of the Harmful Algal 24 |
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| 180 | 180 | | Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 1 |
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| 181 | 181 | | (33 U.S.C. 4002) is amended— 2 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 3 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (A) in paragraph (1)— 4 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (i) by striking ‘‘predicting,’’ and in-5 |
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| 185 | 185 | | serting ‘‘monitoring, observing, fore-6 |
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| 186 | 186 | | casting,’’; and 7 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semi-8 |
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| 188 | 188 | | colon; and 9 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (B) by striking paragraph (2) and insert-10 |
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| 190 | 190 | | ing the following: 11 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(2) the scientific assessment submitted under 12 |
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| 192 | 192 | | section 603(b); and 13 |
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| 193 | 193 | | ‘‘(3) the Action Strategy.’’; 14 |
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| 194 | 194 | | (2) in subsection (c)— 15 |
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| 195 | 195 | | (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘ocean 16 |
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| 196 | 196 | | and Great Lakes science and management pro-17 |
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| 197 | 197 | | grams and centers’’ and inserting ‘‘programs 18 |
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| 198 | 198 | | and centers relating to the science and manage-19 |
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| 199 | 199 | | ment of marine, estuarine, and freshwater sys-20 |
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| 200 | 200 | | tems’’; and 21 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (B) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘while 22 |
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| 202 | 202 | | recognizing each agency is acting under its own 23 |
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| 203 | 203 | | independent mission and authority’’ before the 24 |
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| 204 | 204 | | semicolon; 25 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘Except as 1 |
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| 209 | 209 | | provided in subsection (h), the’’ and inserting 2 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ‘‘The’’; 3 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (4) in subsection (e)— 4 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (A) by striking paragraph (2) and insert-5 |
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| 213 | 213 | | ing the following: 6 |
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| 214 | 214 | | ‘‘(2) examine the causes, ecological con-7 |
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| 215 | 215 | | sequences, and costs of harmful algal blooms and 8 |
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| 216 | 216 | | hypoxia;’’; 9 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (B) in paragraph (3)— 10 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 11 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘, including the annual Gulf of Mexico hy-12 |
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| 220 | 220 | | poxia zone mapping cruise’’ after ‘‘Pro-13 |
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| 221 | 221 | | gram’’; 14 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 15 |
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| 223 | 223 | | ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 16 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (iii) by adding at the end the fol-17 |
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| 225 | 225 | | lowing: 18 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ‘‘(E) to identify opportunities to improve 19 |
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| 227 | 227 | | monitoring of harmful algal blooms and hy-20 |
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| 228 | 228 | | poxia, with a particular focus on waters that 21 |
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| 229 | 229 | | may affect fisheries, public health, or subsist-22 |
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| 230 | 230 | | ence harvest; 23 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(F) to evaluate adaptation and mitigation 1 |
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| 235 | 235 | | strategies to address the impacts of harmful 2 |
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| 236 | 236 | | algal blooms and hypoxia; 3 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ‘‘(G) to support the resilience of the sea-4 |
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| 238 | 238 | | food industry to harmful algal blooms and to 5 |
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| 239 | 239 | | expand access to testing for harmful algal 6 |
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| 240 | 240 | | bloom toxins, including for subsistence and rec-7 |
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| 241 | 241 | | reational harvesters, through innovative meth-8 |
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| 242 | 242 | | ods that increase the efficiency and effective-9 |
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| 243 | 243 | | ness of such testing in rural and remote areas; 10 |
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| 244 | 244 | | ‘‘(H) to support sustained observations to 11 |
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| 245 | 245 | | provide State and local entities, Indian tribes, 12 |
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| 246 | 246 | | and other entities access to real-time or near 13 |
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| 247 | 247 | | real-time observations data for decision-making 14 |
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| 248 | 248 | | to protect human and ecological health and 15 |
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| 249 | 249 | | local economies; and 16 |
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| 250 | 250 | | ‘‘(I) to assess the combined effects of 17 |
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| 251 | 251 | | harmful algal blooms, hypoxia, and stressors 18 |
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| 252 | 252 | | such as runoff and infrastructure changes on 19 |
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| 253 | 253 | | marine, freshwater, or estuarine ecosystems and 20 |
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| 254 | 254 | | living resources;’’; 21 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (C) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘agen-22 |
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| 256 | 256 | | cies’’ and inserting ‘‘entities, regional coastal 23 |
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| 257 | 257 | | observing systems (as defined in section 12303 24 |
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| 261 | 261 | | of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observa-1 |
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| 262 | 262 | | tion System Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3602)),’’; 2 |
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| 263 | 263 | | (D) in paragraph (6), by inserting ‘‘and 3 |
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| 264 | 264 | | communities’’ after ‘‘ecosystems’’; 4 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (E) in paragraph (8), by inserting ‘‘and 5 |
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| 266 | 266 | | Indian tribes’’ after ‘‘managers’’; 6 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (F) in paragraph (9)(A), by striking ‘‘, 7 |
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| 268 | 268 | | tribal, and local stakeholders’’ and inserting 8 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ‘‘and local stakeholders and Indian tribes, Trib-9 |
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| 270 | 270 | | al organizations, and Native Hawaiian organi-10 |
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| 271 | 271 | | zations’’; 11 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (G) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), 12 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), and (11) as para-13 |
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| 274 | 274 | | graphs (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (12), 14 |
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| 275 | 275 | | and (13), respectively; 15 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (H) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 16 |
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| 277 | 277 | | following: 17 |
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| 278 | 278 | | ‘‘(3) consult with entities that are most depend-18 |
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| 279 | 279 | | ent on coastal and water resources that may be im-19 |
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| 280 | 280 | | pacted by marine and freshwater harmful algal 20 |
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| 281 | 281 | | blooms and hypoxia, including— 21 |
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| 282 | 282 | | ‘‘(A) State and local entities; 22 |
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| 283 | 283 | | ‘‘(B) Indian tribes, Tribal organizations, 23 |
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| 284 | 284 | | and Native Hawaiians organizations; 24 |
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| 285 | 285 | | ‘‘(C) island communities; 25 |
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| 289 | 289 | | ‘‘(D) low-population rural communities; 1 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ‘‘(E) subsistence communities; and 2 |
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| 291 | 291 | | ‘‘(F) fisheries and recreation industries;’’; 3 |
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| 292 | 292 | | and 4 |
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| 293 | 293 | | (I) by inserting after paragraph (10), as 5 |
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| 294 | 294 | | redesignated by subparagraph (G), the fol-6 |
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| 295 | 295 | | lowing: 7 |
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| 296 | 296 | | ‘‘(11) expand access to testing for harmful algal 8 |
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| 297 | 297 | | bloom toxins, including for subsistence and rec-9 |
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| 298 | 298 | | reational harvesters, through innovative methods 10 |
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| 299 | 299 | | that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of such 11 |
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| 300 | 300 | | testing in rural and remote areas;’’; 12 |
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| 301 | 301 | | (5) by amending subsection (f) to read as fol-13 |
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| 302 | 302 | | lows: 14 |
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| 303 | 303 | | ‘‘(f) C |
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| 304 | 304 | | OOPERATION; DUPLICATION OFEFFORT.—The 15 |
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| 305 | 305 | | Under Secretary shall work cooperatively with and avoid 16 |
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| 306 | 306 | | duplication of effort of other agencies on the Task Force 17 |
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| 307 | 307 | | and States, Indian tribes, Tribal organizations, Native 18 |
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| 308 | 308 | | Hawaiian organizations, and nongovernmental organiza-19 |
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| 309 | 309 | | tions concerned with marine and freshwater issues.’’; and 20 |
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| 310 | 310 | | (6) by striking subsections (g), (h), and (i). 21 |
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| 312 | 312 | | ATIONALOCEANIC ANDATMOSPHERICADMIN-22 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (1) I |
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| 315 | 315 | | N GENERAL.—Section 603B of the Harm-24 |
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| 320 | 320 | | Act of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 4003) is amended to read 1 |
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| 321 | 321 | | as follows: 2 |
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| 322 | 322 | | ‘‘SEC. 603B. NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC AD-3 |
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| 323 | 323 | | MINISTRATION ACTIVITIES. 4 |
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| 324 | 324 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 325 | 325 | | NGENERAL.—The Under Secretary shall— 5 |
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| 326 | 326 | | ‘‘(1) carry out response activities for marine, 6 |
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| 327 | 327 | | coastal, and Great Lakes harmful algal bloom and 7 |
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| 328 | 328 | | hypoxia events; 8 |
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| 329 | 329 | | ‘‘(2) develop and enhance operational harmful 9 |
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| 330 | 330 | | algal bloom observing and forecasting programs, in-10 |
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| 331 | 331 | | cluding operational observations and forecasting, 11 |
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| 332 | 332 | | monitoring, modeling, data management, and infor-12 |
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| 333 | 333 | | mation dissemination; 13 |
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| 334 | 334 | | ‘‘(3) develop forecast modeling that includes the 14 |
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| 335 | 335 | | effect of hurricanes and other weather events on the 15 |
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| 336 | 336 | | resuspension of bioavailable nutrients in sediments 16 |
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| 337 | 337 | | and related interactions with harmful algal blooms; 17 |
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| 338 | 338 | | ‘‘(4) enhance communication and coordination 18 |
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| 339 | 339 | | among Federal agencies carrying out activities and 19 |
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| 340 | 340 | | research relating to marine and freshwater harmful 20 |
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| 341 | 341 | | algal blooms and hypoxia; 21 |
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| 342 | 342 | | ‘‘(5) leverage existing resources and expertise 22 |
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| 343 | 343 | | available from local research universities and institu-23 |
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| 344 | 344 | | tions; and 24 |
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| 351 | 351 | | NTEGRATEDCOASTAL ANDOCEANOBSERVA-3 |
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| 352 | 352 | | TIONSYSTEM.—The collection of monitoring and observ-4 |
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| 353 | 353 | | ing data under this section shall comply with all data 5 |
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| 354 | 354 | | standards and protocols developed pursuant to the Inte-6 |
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| 355 | 355 | | grated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 7 |
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| 356 | 356 | | 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.). Such data shall be made 8 |
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| 357 | 357 | | available through the National Integrated Coastal and 9 |
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| 358 | 358 | | Ocean Observation System established under section 10 |
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| 359 | 359 | | 12304 of that Act (33 U.S.C. 3603).’’. 11 |
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| 360 | 360 | | (2) C |
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| 361 | 361 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of con-12 |
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| 362 | 362 | | tents in section 2 of the Coast Guard Authorization 13 |
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| 363 | 363 | | Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383; 112 Stat. 3412; 14 |
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| 364 | 364 | | 136 Stat. 1268) is amended by striking the item re-15 |
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| 365 | 365 | | lating to section 603B and inserting the following: 16 |
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| 366 | 366 | | ‘‘Sec. 603B. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration activities.’’. |
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| 367 | 367 | | (d) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONAGENCYACTIVI-17 |
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| 368 | 368 | | TIES.— 18 |
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| 369 | 369 | | (1) I |
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| 370 | 370 | | N GENERAL.—The Harmful Algal Bloom 19 |
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| 371 | 371 | | and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 is 20 |
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| 372 | 372 | | amended by inserting after section 603B (33 U.S.C. 21 |
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| 373 | 373 | | 4003) the following: 22 |
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| 374 | 374 | | ‘‘SEC. 603C. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AC-23 |
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| 375 | 375 | | TIVITIES. 24 |
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| 376 | 376 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 377 | 377 | | NGENERAL.—The Administrator shall— 25 |
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| 382 | 382 | | human health impacts of freshwater harmful algal 2 |
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| 383 | 383 | | blooms and hypoxia events; 3 |
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| 384 | 384 | | ‘‘(2) develop and enhance operational fresh-4 |
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| 385 | 385 | | water harmful algal bloom monitoring, observing, 5 |
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| 386 | 386 | | and forecasting programs in lakes, rivers, and res-6 |
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| 387 | 387 | | ervoirs, and coordinate with the National Oceanic 7 |
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| 388 | 388 | | and Atmospheric Administration on such programs 8 |
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| 389 | 389 | | in the Great Lakes and estuaries (including tribu-9 |
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| 390 | 390 | | taries thereof), including operational observations 10 |
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| 391 | 391 | | and forecasting, monitoring, modeling, data manage-11 |
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| 392 | 392 | | ment, and information dissemination, to support 12 |
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| 393 | 393 | | event response, prioritization, prevention, adapta-13 |
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| 394 | 394 | | tion, and mitigation activities; 14 |
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| 395 | 395 | | ‘‘(3) enhance communication and coordination 15 |
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| 396 | 396 | | among Federal agencies carrying out freshwater 16 |
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| 397 | 397 | | harmful algal bloom and hypoxia activities and re-17 |
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| 398 | 398 | | search; 18 |
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| 399 | 399 | | ‘‘(4) to the greatest extent practicable, leverage 19 |
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| 400 | 400 | | existing resources and expertise available from Fed-20 |
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| 401 | 401 | | eral and State partners and local research univer-21 |
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| 402 | 402 | | sities and institutions; and 22 |
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| 403 | 403 | | ‘‘(5) use cost-effective methods in carrying out 23 |
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| 404 | 404 | | this section. 24 |
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| 408 | 408 | | ‘‘(b) NONDUPLICATION.—The Administrator shall 1 |
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| 409 | 409 | | ensure that activities carried out under subsection (a) 2 |
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| 410 | 410 | | focus on new approaches to addressing freshwater harmful 3 |
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| 411 | 411 | | algal blooms and are not duplicative of existing research 4 |
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| 412 | 412 | | and development programs authorized by this title or any 5 |
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| 413 | 413 | | other law.’’. 6 |
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| 414 | 414 | | (2) C |
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| 415 | 415 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of con-7 |
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| 416 | 416 | | tents in section 2 of the Coast Guard Authorization 8 |
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| 417 | 417 | | Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383; 112 Stat. 3412; 9 |
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| 418 | 418 | | 136 Stat. 1268) is amended by inserting after the 10 |
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| 419 | 419 | | item relating to section 603B the following: 11 |
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| 420 | 420 | | ‘‘Sec. 603C. Environmental Protection Agency activities.’’. |
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| 421 | 421 | | (e) NATIONALHARMFULALGALBLOOMOBSERVING 12 |
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| 423 | 423 | | ETWORK.— 13 |
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| 424 | 424 | | (1) I |
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| 425 | 425 | | N GENERAL.—Section 606 of the Harmful 14 |
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| 426 | 426 | | Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act 15 |
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| 427 | 427 | | of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 4005) is amended to read as fol-16 |
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| 428 | 428 | | lows: 17 |
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| 429 | 429 | | ‘‘SEC. 606. NATIONAL HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM OBSERVING 18 |
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| 430 | 430 | | NETWORK. 19 |
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| 431 | 431 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 432 | 432 | | NGENERAL.—The Under Secretary, acting 20 |
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| 433 | 433 | | through the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science 21 |
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| 434 | 434 | | and the Integrated Ocean Observing System of the Na-22 |
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| 435 | 435 | | tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall in-23 |
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| 436 | 436 | | tegrate Federal, State, regional, and local observing capa-24 |
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| 437 | 437 | | bilities to establish a national network of observing sys-25 |
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| 441 | 441 | | tems for the monitoring, detection, and forecasting of 1 |
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| 442 | 442 | | harmful algal blooms by leveraging the capacity of re-2 |
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| 443 | 443 | | gional associations of the Integrated Ocean Observing Sys-3 |
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| 444 | 444 | | tem, including through the incorporation of emerging tech-4 |
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| 445 | 445 | | nologies and new data integration methods. 5 |
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| 446 | 446 | | ‘‘(b) C |
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| 447 | 447 | | OORDINATION AND DATAASSEMBLY.—In car-6 |
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| 448 | 448 | | rying out subsection (a), the Program Office of the Inte-7 |
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| 449 | 449 | | grated Ocean Observing System shall— 8 |
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| 450 | 450 | | ‘‘(1) coordinate with the National Centers for 9 |
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| 451 | 451 | | Coastal Ocean Science regarding observations, data 10 |
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| 452 | 452 | | integration, and information dissemination; 11 |
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| 453 | 453 | | ‘‘(2) organize, integrate, disseminate, and pro-12 |
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| 454 | 454 | | vide a central architecture to support ecological fore-13 |
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| 455 | 455 | | casting of harmful algal blooms; and 14 |
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| 456 | 456 | | ‘‘(3) coordinate with the Water Quality Portal 15 |
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| 457 | 457 | | to store and serve discrete data related to the moni-16 |
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| 458 | 458 | | toring of freshwater, estuarine, and coastal harmful 17 |
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| 459 | 459 | | algal blooms.’’. 18 |
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| 460 | 460 | | (2) C |
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| 461 | 461 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of con-19 |
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| 462 | 462 | | tents in section 2 of the Coast Guard Authorization 20 |
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| 463 | 463 | | Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383; 112 Stat. 3412; 21 |
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| 464 | 464 | | 136 Stat. 1268) is amended by striking the item re-22 |
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| 465 | 465 | | lating to section 606 and inserting the following: 23 |
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| 466 | 466 | | ‘‘Sec. 606. National harmful algal bloom observing network.’’. |
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| 467 | 467 | | (f) NATIONAL-LEVELINCUBATORPROGRAM.— 24 |
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| 472 | 472 | | and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 is 2 |
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| 473 | 473 | | amended by inserting after section 606 (33 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 474 | 474 | | 4005) the following: 4 |
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| 475 | 475 | | ‘‘SEC. 606A. NATIONAL-LEVEL INCUBATOR PROGRAM. 5 |
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| 476 | 476 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 477 | 477 | | NGENERAL.—The Under Secretary, in collabo-6 |
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| 478 | 478 | | ration with the Administrator and research universities 7 |
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| 479 | 479 | | and institutions, shall establish a national-level incubator 8 |
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| 480 | 480 | | program (in this section referred to as the ‘program’) to 9 |
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| 481 | 481 | | increase the number of strategies, technologies, and meas-10 |
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| 482 | 482 | | ures available to prevent, mitigate, and control harmful 11 |
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| 483 | 483 | | algal blooms. 12 |
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| 484 | 484 | | ‘‘(b) F |
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| 485 | 485 | | RAMEWORK.—The program shall establish a 13 |
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| 486 | 486 | | framework for preliminary assessments of novel strategies, 14 |
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| 487 | 487 | | technologies, and measures to prevent, mitigate, and con-15 |
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| 488 | 488 | | trol harmful algal blooms in order to determine the poten-16 |
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| 489 | 489 | | tial effectiveness and scalability of such technologies. 17 |
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| 490 | 490 | | ‘‘(c) F |
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| 491 | 491 | | UNDING.—The program shall provide merit- 18 |
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| 492 | 492 | | based funding, using amounts otherwise available to the 19 |
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| 493 | 493 | | Under Secretary for the award of grants, for strategies, 20 |
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| 494 | 494 | | technologies, and measures that eliminate or reduce, 21 |
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| 495 | 495 | | through biological, chemical, or physical means, the levels 22 |
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| 496 | 496 | | of harmful algae and associated toxins resulting from 23 |
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| 497 | 497 | | harmful algal blooms. 24 |
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| 501 | 501 | | ‘‘(d) DATABASE.—The program shall include a data-1 |
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| 502 | 502 | | base for cataloging the licensing and permitting require-2 |
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| 503 | 503 | | ments, economic costs, feasibility, effectiveness, and 3 |
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| 504 | 504 | | scalability of novel and established strategies, tech-4 |
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| 505 | 505 | | nologies, and measures to prevent, mitigate, and control 5 |
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| 506 | 506 | | harmful algal blooms. 6 |
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| 507 | 507 | | ‘‘(e) P |
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| 508 | 508 | | RIORITIZATION.—In carrying out the program, 7 |
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| 509 | 509 | | the Under Secretary shall prioritize proposed strategies, 8 |
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| 510 | 510 | | technologies, and measures that would, to the maximum 9 |
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| 511 | 511 | | extent practicable— 10 |
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| 512 | 512 | | ‘‘(1) protect key habitats for fish and wildlife; 11 |
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| 513 | 513 | | ‘‘(2) maintain biodiversity; 12 |
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| 514 | 514 | | ‘‘(3) protect public health; 13 |
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| 515 | 515 | | ‘‘(4) protect coastal resources of national, his-14 |
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| 516 | 516 | | torical, and cultural significance; or 15 |
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| 517 | 517 | | ‘‘(5) benefit low-income communities, Indian 16 |
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| 518 | 518 | | tribes, and rural communities.’’. 17 |
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| 519 | 519 | | (2) C |
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| 520 | 520 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of con-18 |
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| 521 | 521 | | tents in section 2 of the Coast Guard Authorization 19 |
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| 522 | 522 | | Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383; 112 Stat. 3412; 20 |
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| 523 | 523 | | 136 Stat. 1268) is amended by inserting after the 21 |
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| 524 | 524 | | item relating to section 606 the following: 22 |
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| 525 | 525 | | ‘‘Sec. 606A. National-level incubator program.’’. |
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| 526 | 526 | | (g) DEFINITIONS.—Section 609 of the Harmful Algal 23 |
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| 527 | 527 | | Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 24 |
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| 528 | 528 | | (33 U.S.C. 4008) is amended— 25 |
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| 533 | 533 | | comprehensive research plan and action strategy es-2 |
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| 534 | 534 | | tablished under section 603B’’ and inserting ‘‘means 3 |
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| 535 | 535 | | the action strategy for harmful algal blooms in the 4 |
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| 536 | 536 | | United States most recently submitted under section 5 |
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| 537 | 537 | | 603(c)’’; 6 |
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| 538 | 538 | | (2) by amending paragraph (3) to read as fol-7 |
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| 539 | 539 | | lows: 8 |
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| 540 | 540 | | ‘‘(3) H |
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| 541 | 541 | | ARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM .—The term 9 |
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| 542 | 542 | | ‘harmful algal bloom’ means a high concentration of 10 |
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| 543 | 543 | | marine or freshwater algae (including diatoms), 11 |
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| 544 | 544 | | macroalgae (including Sargassum), or cyanobacteria 12 |
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| 545 | 545 | | resulting in nuisance conditions or harmful impacts 13 |
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| 546 | 546 | | on marine and freshwater ecosystems, subsistence 14 |
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| 547 | 547 | | resources, communities, or human health through 15 |
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| 548 | 548 | | the production of toxic compounds or other biologi-16 |
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| 549 | 549 | | cal, chemical, or physical impacts of the bloom.’’; 17 |
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| 550 | 550 | | (3) by striking paragraph (9); 18 |
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| 551 | 551 | | (4) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), (6), 19 |
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| 552 | 552 | | (7), and (8) as paragraphs (5), (8), (9), (11), and 20 |
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| 553 | 553 | | (13), respectively; 21 |
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| 554 | 554 | | (5) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-22 |
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| 555 | 555 | | lowing: 23 |
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| 556 | 556 | | ‘‘(4) H |
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| 557 | 557 | | ARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM AND HYPOXIA 24 |
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| 563 | 563 | | bloom or hypoxia as a result of a natural, anthropo-2 |
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| 564 | 564 | | genic, or undetermined cause.’’; 3 |
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| 565 | 565 | | (6) in paragraph (5), as redesignated by para-4 |
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| 566 | 566 | | graph (4)— 5 |
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| 567 | 567 | | (A) by striking ‘‘aquatic’’ and inserting 6 |
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| 568 | 568 | | ‘‘marine or freshwater’’; and 7 |
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| 569 | 569 | | (B) by striking ‘‘resident’’ and inserting 8 |
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| 570 | 570 | | ‘‘marine or freshwater’’; 9 |
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| 571 | 571 | | (7) by inserting after paragraph (5), as redesig-10 |
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| 572 | 572 | | nated by paragraph (4), the following: 11 |
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| 573 | 573 | | ‘‘(6) I |
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| 574 | 574 | | NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian tribe’ 12 |
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| 575 | 575 | | has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the 13 |
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| 576 | 576 | | Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 14 |
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| 577 | 577 | | Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 15 |
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| 578 | 578 | | ‘‘(7) N |
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| 579 | 579 | | ATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATION .—The 16 |
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| 580 | 580 | | term ‘Native Hawaiian organization’ has the mean-17 |
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| 581 | 581 | | ing given that term in section 6207 of the Elemen-18 |
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| 582 | 582 | | tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 19 |
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| 583 | 583 | | U.S.C. 7517) and includes the Department of Ha-20 |
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| 584 | 584 | | waiian Home Lands and the Office of Hawaiian Af-21 |
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| 585 | 585 | | fairs.’’; 22 |
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| 586 | 586 | | (8) by inserting after paragraph (9), as redesig-23 |
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| 587 | 587 | | nated by paragraph (4), the following: 24 |
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| 592 | 592 | | ence use’ means the customary and traditional use 2 |
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| 593 | 593 | | of fish, wildlife, or other freshwater, coastal, or ma-3 |
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| 594 | 594 | | rine resources by any individual or community to 4 |
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| 595 | 595 | | meet personal or family needs, including essential 5 |
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| 596 | 596 | | economic, nutritional, or cultural applications.’’; and 6 |
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| 597 | 597 | | (9) by inserting after paragraph (11), as redes-7 |
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| 598 | 598 | | ignated by paragraph (4), the following: 8 |
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| 599 | 599 | | ‘‘(12) T |
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| 600 | 600 | | RIBAL ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘Trib-9 |
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| 601 | 601 | | al organization’ has the meaning given that term in 10 |
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| 602 | 602 | | section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-11 |
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| 603 | 603 | | cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).’’. 12 |
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| 605 | 605 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 13 |
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| 606 | 606 | | 610 of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research 14 |
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| 607 | 607 | | and Control Act of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 4009) is amended— 15 |
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| 608 | 608 | | (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-16 |
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| 609 | 609 | | lows: 17 |
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| 612 | 612 | | priated to carry out this title, for each of fiscal years 2026 19 |
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| 613 | 613 | | through 2030— 20 |
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| 614 | 614 | | ‘‘(1) $19,500,000 to the Under Secretary; and 21 |
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| 615 | 615 | | ‘‘(2) $8,000,000 to the Administrator.’’; and 22 |
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| 616 | 616 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 23 |
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| 617 | 617 | | ‘‘(c) T |
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| 624 | 624 | | available to carry out this title to the head of any Federal 2 |
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| 625 | 625 | | department or agency, with the concurrence of such head, 3 |
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| 626 | 626 | | to carry out, as appropriate, relevant provisions of this 4 |
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| 627 | 627 | | title and section 9(g) of the National Integrated Drought 5 |
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| 628 | 628 | | Information System Reauthorization Act of 2018 (33 6 |
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| 629 | 629 | | U.S.C. 4010).’’. 7 |
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| 630 | 630 | | SEC. 3. OTHER HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM AND HYPOXIA 8 |
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| 631 | 631 | | MATTERS. 9 |
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| 632 | 632 | | Section 9(g) of the National Integrated Drought In-10 |
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| 633 | 633 | | formation System Reauthorization Act of 2018 (33 U.S.C. 11 |
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| 634 | 634 | | 4010) is amended— 12 |
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| 635 | 635 | | (1) in paragraph (1)— 13 |
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| 636 | 636 | | (A) in subparagraph (B), by adding at the 14 |
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| 637 | 637 | | end the following new sentence: ‘‘The appro-15 |
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| 638 | 638 | | priate Federal official may waive the non-Fed-16 |
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| 639 | 639 | | eral share requirements of the preceding sen-17 |
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| 640 | 640 | | tence if such official determines no reasonable 18 |
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| 641 | 641 | | means are available through which the recipient 19 |
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| 642 | 642 | | of the Federal share can meet the non-Federal 20 |
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| 643 | 643 | | share requirement.’’; and 21 |
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| 644 | 644 | | (B) by adding at the end the following: 22 |
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| 645 | 645 | | ‘‘(D) C |
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| 646 | 646 | | ONTRACT, COOPERATIVE AGREE -23 |
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| 647 | 647 | | MENT, AND GRANT AUTHORITY .—The appro-24 |
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| 648 | 648 | | priate Federal official may enter into contracts, 25 |
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| 653 | 653 | | Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, Native Ha-2 |
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| 654 | 654 | | waiian organizations, local governments, or 3 |
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| 655 | 655 | | other entities to pay for or reimburse costs in-4 |
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| 656 | 656 | | curred by such entities for the purposes of sup-5 |
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| 657 | 657 | | porting the determination of, and assessing the 6 |
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| 658 | 658 | | environmental, economic, subsistence use, and 7 |
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| 659 | 659 | | public health effects of, an event of national 8 |
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| 660 | 660 | | significance.’’; 9 |
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| 661 | 661 | | (2) in paragraph (2)— 10 |
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| 662 | 662 | | (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘a 11 |
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| 663 | 663 | | leadership official of an affected Indian Tribe, 12 |
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| 664 | 664 | | the executive official of the District of Colum-13 |
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| 665 | 665 | | bia, or the executive official of an affected terri-14 |
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| 666 | 666 | | tory or possession of the United States,’’ after 15 |
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| 667 | 667 | | ‘‘State,’’; and 16 |
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| 668 | 668 | | (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘con-17 |
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| 669 | 669 | | sider’’ and all that follows through ‘‘boundary.’’ 18 |
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| 670 | 670 | | and inserting ‘‘consider factors such as— 19 |
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| 671 | 671 | | ‘‘(i) the risk to public health and the 20 |
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| 672 | 672 | | potential severity of the detrimental envi-21 |
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| 673 | 673 | | ronmental effects of the hypoxia or harm-22 |
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| 674 | 674 | | ful algal bloom event, as indicated by— 23 |
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| 675 | 675 | | ‘‘(I) data on shellfish or water 24 |
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| 676 | 676 | | quality obtained through sampling 25 |
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| 681 | 681 | | and regulatory or advisory thresholds 2 |
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| 682 | 682 | | established to explain management ac-3 |
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| 683 | 683 | | tions related to the event; 4 |
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| 684 | 684 | | ‘‘(II) toxin levels in fish, marine 5 |
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| 685 | 685 | | mammals, seabirds, shellfish, or water 6 |
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| 686 | 686 | | during the event; 7 |
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| 687 | 687 | | ‘‘(III) toxic aerosols produced 8 |
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| 688 | 688 | | during the event, including potential 9 |
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| 689 | 689 | | human exposures to toxic aerosols; 10 |
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| 690 | 690 | | ‘‘(IV) reports of human or ani-11 |
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| 691 | 691 | | mal illnesses or mortalities during the 12 |
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| 692 | 692 | | event; 13 |
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| 693 | 693 | | ‘‘(V) any closures of fishing or 14 |
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| 694 | 694 | | shellfish harvesting locations or rec-15 |
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| 695 | 695 | | reational public waters, including 16 |
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| 696 | 696 | | beaches, during the event; 17 |
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| 697 | 697 | | ‘‘(VI) the duration and spatial 18 |
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| 698 | 698 | | extent of the event; or 19 |
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| 699 | 699 | | ‘‘(VII) impacts to habitats or 20 |
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| 700 | 700 | | ecosystems associated with the event; 21 |
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| 701 | 701 | | ‘‘(ii) the potential economic, food safe-22 |
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| 702 | 702 | | ty and security, and subsistence impacts 23 |
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| 703 | 703 | | associated with the hypoxia or harmful 24 |
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| 704 | 704 | | algal bloom event, including to fisheries 25 |
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| 709 | 709 | | monitoring and management, resource use, 2 |
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| 710 | 710 | | and event response activities, assessed in 3 |
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| 711 | 711 | | comparison with historical data from when 4 |
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| 712 | 712 | | a State or region did not experience such 5 |
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| 713 | 713 | | an event, as possible, as indicated by— 6 |
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| 714 | 714 | | ‘‘(I) increases in public health ex-7 |
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| 715 | 715 | | penditures; 8 |
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| 716 | 716 | | ‘‘(II) losses to commercial fish-9 |
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| 717 | 717 | | eries and aquaculture industries, 10 |
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| 718 | 718 | | recreation and tourism, real estate, 11 |
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| 719 | 719 | | and other impacted industries or busi-12 |
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| 720 | 720 | | nesses; 13 |
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| 721 | 721 | | ‘‘(III) increases in monitoring 14 |
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| 722 | 722 | | and management expenditures, includ-15 |
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| 723 | 723 | | ing costs incurred for event response 16 |
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| 724 | 724 | | and clean-up (such as for beach clean- 17 |
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| 725 | 725 | | up following an influx of biomass or a 18 |
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| 726 | 726 | | fish-kill) by public or private sectors; 19 |
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| 727 | 727 | | or 20 |
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| 728 | 728 | | ‘‘(IV) impacts to subsistence re-21 |
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| 729 | 729 | | sources, including nutritional, re-22 |
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| 730 | 730 | | source use, and economic effects on 23 |
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| 731 | 731 | | subsistence communities; 24 |
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| 735 | 735 | | ‘‘(iii) the relative magnitude of those 1 |
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| 736 | 736 | | impacts in relation to past occurrences of 2 |
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| 737 | 737 | | hypoxia or harmful algal bloom events that 3 |
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| 738 | 738 | | occur on a recurrent or annual basis; and 4 |
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| 739 | 739 | | ‘‘(iv) the geographic scope of the hy-5 |
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| 740 | 740 | | poxia or harmful algal bloom event, includ-6 |
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| 741 | 741 | | ing the potential of the event to affect sev-7 |
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| 742 | 742 | | eral municipalities, to affect more than 1 8 |
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| 743 | 743 | | State, or to cross an international bound-9 |
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| 744 | 744 | | ary.’’; 10 |
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| 745 | 745 | | (3) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the 11 |
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| 746 | 746 | | following: 12 |
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| 747 | 747 | | ‘‘(D) I |
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| 748 | 748 | | NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian 13 |
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| 749 | 749 | | Tribe’ has the meaning given that term in sec-14 |
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| 750 | 750 | | tion 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 15 |
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| 751 | 751 | | Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 16 |
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| 752 | 752 | | ‘‘(E) N |
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| 753 | 753 | | ATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATION .— 17 |
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| 754 | 754 | | The term ‘Native Hawaiian organization’ has 18 |
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| 755 | 755 | | the meaning given that term in section 6207 of 19 |
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| 756 | 756 | | the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 20 |
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| 757 | 757 | | of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7517) and includes the De-21 |
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| 758 | 758 | | partment of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Of-22 |
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| 759 | 759 | | fice of Hawaiian Affairs. 23 |
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| 760 | 760 | | ‘‘(F) S |
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| 761 | 761 | | UBSISTENCE USE.—The term ‘sub-24 |
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| 762 | 762 | | sistence use’ means the customary and tradi-25 |
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| 766 | 766 | | tional use of fish, wildlife, or other freshwater, 1 |
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| 767 | 767 | | coastal, or marine resources by any individual 2 |
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| 768 | 768 | | or community to meet personal or family needs, 3 |
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| 769 | 769 | | including essential economic, nutritional, or cul-4 |
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| 770 | 770 | | tural applications. 5 |
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| 771 | 771 | | ‘‘(G) T |
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| 772 | 772 | | RIBAL ORGANIZATION .—The term 6 |
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| 773 | 773 | | ‘Tribal organization’ has the meaning given 7 |
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| 774 | 774 | | that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Deter-8 |
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| 775 | 775 | | mination and Education Assistance Act (25 9 |
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| 776 | 776 | | U.S.C. 5304).’’; and 10 |
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| 777 | 777 | | (4) by adding at the end the following: 11 |
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| 778 | 778 | | ‘‘(4) A |
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| 779 | 779 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS .— 12 |
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| 780 | 780 | | There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 13 |
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| 781 | 781 | | this subsection $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 14 |
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| 782 | 782 | | 2026 through 2030, to remain available until ex-15 |
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| 783 | 783 | | pended.’’. 16 |
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