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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1391
To amend the Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act
of 2009 to require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Admin-
istrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to
collaborate with State and local governments and Indian Tribes on vul-
nerability assessments related to ocean acidification, research planning,
and similar activities, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL9, 2025
Ms. M
URKOWSKI(for herself, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. SULLIVAN, Ms. WAR-
REN, Mr. KING, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, and Mr. PETERS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Federal Ocean Acidification Research And
Monitoring Act of 2009 to require the Secretary of Com-
merce, acting through the Administrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to collaborate
with State and local governments and Indian Tribes on
vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification,
research planning, and similar activities, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coastal Communities 2
Ocean Acidification Act of 2025’’. 3
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 4
Section 12403 of the Federal Ocean Acidification Re-5
search And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3702) is 6
amended— 7
(1) by striking paragraph (4); 8
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and 9
(5) as paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) respectively; 10
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-11
lowing: 12
‘‘(2) I
NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian Tribe’ 13
has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the 14
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 15
Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 16
‘‘(3) N
ATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATION .—The 17
term ‘Native Hawaiian organization’ has the mean-18
ing given that term in section 3 of the NATIVE Act 19
(25 U.S.C. 4352).’’; 20
(4) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by para-21
graph (2), by inserting ‘‘an increase of’’ before ‘‘car-22
bon dioxide’’; and 23
(5) by adding at the end the following: 24
‘‘(7) S
UBCOMMITTEE.—The term ‘Sub-25
committee’ means the National Science and Tech-26
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nology Council Subcommittee on Ocean Science and 1
Technology. 2
‘‘(8) U
NITED STATES.—The term ‘United 3
States’ means the States, collectively.’’. 4
SEC. 3. IMPROVEMENT OF COLLABORATION ON OCEAN 5
ACIDIFICATION. 6
(a) O
NGOING INPUT MECHANISM.—Section 7
12404(c)(2) of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research 8
And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3703(c)(2)) is 9
amended— 10
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 11
and inserting a semicolon; 12
(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period 13
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 14
(3) by adding at the end the following: 15
‘‘(D) maintain or establish an ongoing 16
mechanism (such as a liaison or other contact 17
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-18
ministration, standing meetings, or an online 19
platform) to engage affected industry members, 20
coastal stakeholders, community acidification 21
networks, fishery management councils and 22
commissions, Indigenous knowledge groups, 23
non-Federal resource managers, and scientific 24
experts not employed by the Federal Govern-25
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ment to provide input on research, data, and 1
monitoring that is necessary to support on-the- 2
ground management, decision making, and ad-3
aptation related to ocean acidification and 4
coastal acidification and the impacts of ocean 5
acidification and coastal acidification.’’. 6
(b) A
DVISORYBOARDMEMBERSHIP.—Section 7
12404(c)(3) of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research 8
And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3703(c)(3)) is 9
amended— 10
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (G) 11
through (Q) as subparagraphs (H) through (R), re-12
spectively; 13
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (F) the fol-14
lowing: 15
‘‘(G) Two representatives from Indian 16
Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, Tribal 17
organizations, and Tribal consortia affected by 18
ocean acidification and coastal acidification.’’; 19
and 20
(3) in subparagraph (H), as redesignated by 21
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Six’’ and inserting 22
‘‘Four’’. 23
(c) A
PPOINTMENT OF ADVISORYBOARDMEM-24
BERS.—Section 12404(c)(4)(C) of the Federal Ocean 25
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Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 1
U.S.C. 3703(c)(4)(C)) is amended by striking ‘‘State and 2
local’’ and inserting ‘‘State, local, and Indigenous’’. 3
(d) E
NGAGEMENT AND COORDINATIONWITHINDIAN 4
T
RIBES.—Paragraph (9) of section 12404(c) of the Fed-5
eral Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 6
2009 (33 U.S.C. 3703(c)) is amended to read as follows: 7
‘‘(9) E
NGAGEMENT AND COORDINATION WITH 8
INDIAN TRIBES.— 9
‘‘(A) P
OLICY REQUIRED.—Not later than 10
one year after the date on which the Advisory 11
Board is established, the Advisory Board shall 12
develop and commence maintaining a policy for 13
engagement and coordination with Indian 14
Tribes affected by ocean acidification and coast-15
al acidification. 16
‘‘(B) C
ONSULTATION.—In developing the 17
policy under subparagraph (A), the Advisory 18
Board shall consult with Indian Tribes affected 19
by ocean acidification and coastal acidifica-20
tion.’’. 21
(e) C
OLLABORATION ON VULNERABILITYASSESS-22
MENTS, RESEARCHPLANNING, ANDSIMILARACTIVI-23
TIES.—Section 12404(e)(4)(A) of the Federal Ocean 24
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Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 1
U.S.C. 3703(e)(4)(A)) is amended— 2
(1) by redesignating clauses (ix) and (x) as 3
clauses (x) and (xi), respectively; and 4
(2) by inserting after clause (viii) the following: 5
‘‘(ix) identifies the efforts of the Sec-6
retary to collaborate with State and local 7
governments, Indian Tribes, and Native 8
Hawaiian organizations on community vul-9
nerability assessments, research planning, 10
and similar activities, pursuant to section 11
12406(e);’’. 12
(f) C
ONTENTS OF STRATEGICRESEARCHPLAN.— 13
Section 12405(b) of the Federal Ocean Acidification Re-14
search And Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3704(b)) 15
is amended— 16
(1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘section 17
12404(c)(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 12404(e)(4)’’; 18
and 19
(2) in paragraph (11), by striking ‘‘potentially 20
affected industry members, coastal stakeholders, 21
fishery management councils and commissions, Trib-22
al governments, non-Federal resource managers, and 23
scientific experts’’ and inserting ‘‘affected industry 24
members, coastal stakeholders, community acidifica-25
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tion networks, fishery management councils and 1
commissions, Indigenous knowledge groups, non- 2
Federal resource managers, and scientific experts 3
not employed by the Federal Government’’. 4
(g) I
MPROVINGCOLLABORATION ON NOAA OCEAN 5
A
CIDIFICATIONACTIVITIES.—Section 12406 of the Fed-6
eral Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 7
2009 (33 U.S.C. 3705) is amended— 8
(1) in subsection (a)— 9
(A) in paragraph (1)— 10
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 11
‘‘maximize’’ and inserting ‘‘take into con-12
sideration’’; 13
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by adding a 14
semicolon at the end; and 15
(iii) in subparagraph (F), by striking 16
‘‘Tribal governments’’ and inserting ‘‘In-17
dian Tribes, Native Hawaiian organiza-18
tions’’; and 19
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘industry 20
members, coastal stakeholders, fishery manage-21
ment councils and commissions, non-Federal re-22
source managers, community acidification net-23
works, indigenous knowledge groups, and sci-24
entific experts’’ and inserting ‘‘affected industry 25
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members, coastal stakeholders, community 1
acidification networks, fishery management 2
councils and commissions, Indigenous knowl-3
edge groups, non-Federal resource managers, 4
and scientific experts not employed by the Fed-5
eral Government’’; 6
(2) in subsection (c)— 7
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘State, 8
local, and Tribal governments’’ and inserting 9
‘‘State and local governments, Indian Tribes,’’; 10
and 11
(B) in paragraph (2)— 12
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; 13
or’’ and inserting a semicolon; 14
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph 15
(B) as subparagraph (C); 16
(iii) by inserting after subparagraph 17
(A) the following: 18
‘‘(B) on ocean acidification and coastal 19
acidification research, data, and monitoring 20
from affected industry members, coastal stake-21
holders, community acidification networks, fish-22
ery management councils and commissions, In-23
digenous knowledge groups, non-Federal re-24
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source managers, and scientific experts not em-1
ployed by the Federal Government; or’’; and 2
(iv) in subparagraph (C), as redesig-3
nated by clause (ii), by striking ‘‘State 4
governments, local governments, Tribal 5
governments’’ and inserting ‘‘State and 6
local governments, Indian Tribes’’; 7
(3) in subsection (d)(1)(C), by striking ‘‘Tribes 8
or Tribal governments’’ and inserting ‘‘Indian 9
Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, Tribal orga-10
nizations, and Tribal consortia’’; and 11
(4) by adding at the end the following: 12
‘‘(e) B
ETTERCOLLABORATION ON VULNERABILITY 13
A
SSESSMENTS, RESEARCHPLANNING, ANDSIMILARAC-14
TIVITIES.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—In carrying out the pro-16
gram under subsection (a), and in support of vulner-17
ability assessments transmitted under section 18
12404(e)(4) and recommendations included in the 19
strategic research plan described in section 20
12405(b)(10), the Secretary shall build upon exist-21
ing activities and collaborate with State and local 22
governments and Indian Tribes that are conducting 23
or have completed vulnerability assessments, re-24
search planning, climate action plans, or other simi-25
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lar activities related to ocean acidification and coast-1
al acidification and the impacts of ocean acidifica-2
tion and coastal acidification on coastal commu-3
nities, for the purpose of— 4
‘‘(A) supporting collaborative interagency 5
relationships and information sharing at the 6
State, local, and Tribal levels; and 7
‘‘(B) assisting State and local governments 8
and Indian Tribes in— 9
‘‘(i) improving existing systems and 10
programs to better address ocean acidifica-11
tion and coastal acidification; and 12
‘‘(ii) identifying whether such activi-13
ties can be used as a model for other com-14
munities. 15
‘‘(2) N
ATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS , TRIB-16
AL ORGANIZATIONS, AND TRIBAL CONSORTIA .—In 17
carrying out the program under subsection (a), and 18
in support of vulnerability assessments transmitted 19
under section 12404(e)(4) and recommendations in-20
cluded in the strategic research plan described in 21
section 12405(b)(10), the Secretary may build upon 22
existing activities and collaborate with Native Ha-23
waiian organizations, Tribal organizations, and Trib-24
al consortia that are conducting or have completed 25
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vulnerability assessments, research planning, climate 1
action plans, or other similar activities related to 2
ocean acidification and coastal acidification and the 3
impacts of ocean acidification and coastal acidifica-4
tion on coastal communities. 5
‘‘(3) P
RIORITY.—In carrying out paragraphs 6
(1) and (2), the Secretary shall prioritize under-7
served populations and entities in the use of re-8
sources of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 9
Administration.’’. 10
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 11
The Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Moni-12
toring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.) is amended— 13
(1) in section 12402 (33 U.S.C. 3701)— 14
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘develop-15
ment coordination and implementation’’ and in-16
serting ‘‘development, coordination, and imple-17
mentation’’; and 18
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘research 19
adaptation strategies and mitigating the im-20
pacts’’ and inserting ‘‘research on adaptation 21
strategies and mitigation of the impacts’’; 22
(2) in section 12404 (33 U.S.C. 3703)— 23
(A) in subsection (b)(5), by striking ‘‘; 24
and’’ and inserting a period; 25
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(B) in subsection (c)(2)(A)— 1
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘sub-2
section (d)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 3
(e)(2)’’; and 4
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘sub-5
section (d)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 6
(e)(3)’’; 7
(C) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ‘‘this 8
section’’ and inserting ‘‘this subsection’’; and 9
(D) in subsection (e)— 10
(i) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking 11
‘‘interagency’’ and inserting ‘‘the’’; and 12
(ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 13
‘‘years until 2031 thereafter’’ and inserting 14
‘‘years thereafter until 2031’’; and 15
(3) in section 12406(d)(2) (33 U.S.C. 16
3705(d)(2)), by striking ‘‘The Secretary to,’’ and in-17
serting ‘‘The Secretary, to’’. 18
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