Sec. 3. Definitions
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Section 12403 of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 ( 33 U.S.C. 3702 ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking of the Earth’s oceans and all that follows before the period at the end and inserting and changes in the water chemistry of the Earth’s oceans, coastal estuaries, and waterways caused by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the breakdown of organic matter ; in paragraph (3), by striking Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology of the National Science and Technology Council and inserting National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology ; by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3)as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively; by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph: The term coastal acidification means the combined decrease in pH and changes in the water chemistry of coastal oceans, estuaries, and other bodies of water from chemical inputs (including carbon dioxide from the atmosphere), freshwater inputs, and excess nutrient run-off from land and coastal atmospheric pollution that result in processes that release carbon dioxide, acidic nitrogen, and sulfur compounds as byproducts which end up in coastal waters. ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: The term State means each State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and any other territory or possession of the United States. .
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