Sec. 203. Use of recovered amounts
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All amounts available to the Secretary of the Interior that are attributable to fines, penalties, and forfeitures of property (or proceeds from the sale of such forfeited property) imposed for violations of any law for which the Secretary of the Interior is an enforcement agency, including the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.), and regulations implementing such law, for damages to corals, coral reefs, or coral reef ecosystems, shall be used by the Secretary of the Interior— for the benefit of the coral reef ecosystem impacted by the applicable violation, to the extent practicable; to carry out emergency response activities authorized under section 206 of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 6405 ), including to reimburse any Federal, State or local government agency for response costs incurred; or to carry out the purposes of this title, including grants of financial assistance for coral reef conservation projects.
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