Sec. 1307. Department of the Interior coastal wetland restoration; funding
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The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct coastal wetland restoration on land managed by the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or the Director of the National Park Service to achieve at least 1 of the following: The sequestration of additional carbon dioxide through— the active restoration of degraded coastal wetland; and the protection of threatened coastal wetland. The halting of ongoing carbon dioxide emissions, and the resumption of the natural rate of carbon capture, through the restoration of drained coastal wetland.
The halting of ongoing methane emissions, and the resumption of the natural rate of carbon storage, through the restoration of formerly tidal wetland that has lost tidal connectivity and become fresh wetland (commonly known as impounded wetland ). For each fiscal year, there is authorized to be appropriated— for coastal wetland restoration on land managed by the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service $200,000,000; and for coastal wetland restoration on land managed by the Director of the National Park Service $200,000,000.
The Secretary of the Interior shall be entitled to receive, shall accept, and shall use to carry out this section in accordance with paragraph
(1)the funds transferred under that paragraph, without further appropriation.