Sec. 202. Interagency Task Force
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Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall establish the 30x30 Interagency Task Force. The task force shall be chaired by the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The President shall appoint the following individuals as members of the task force: The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Administrator. The Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of State. The Secretary of Energy.
The Secretary of Homeland Security. The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Not later than one year after the date on which the task force is established, the task force shall— develop a plan and schedule consistent with the policy of prohibiting any commercial extractive or destructive human activity on at least 30 percent of the ocean under United States jurisdiction by 2030 that includes— an update to the National Marine Protected Area Center’s Marine Protected Area Inventory; the identification of candidate areas for protection that meet one or more of the criteria set out in section 201(b); and annual benchmarks for achieving the policy described in subsection (d)(1); and develop a plan to provide technical assistance, data, and other resources for identifying and establishing strongly protected areas of the ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction that includes— an inventory of areas already protected in areas of the ocean beyond the jurisdiction of the United States, and a description of any activities that are currently allowed in each of the areas; and an inventory of areas that other countries or international governing bodies are considering making a marine protected area.
The task force shall conduct an inventory of areas under United States jurisdiction that are subject to both a prohibition on all bottom-tending fishing gear and a prohibition on all fishing gear with bycatch rates that adversely affect marine wildlife populations, and identify additional prohibitions on nonfishing commercial activities in those areas. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the task force shall submit a report to Congress on the progress of the United States in meeting the policy described in subsection (d)(1).
Not later than 180 days after the date on which the task force issues a plan under subsection (d), each member of the task force shall develop and implement an agency plan for actions to be taken to implement such task force plan. The development of a plan under subsection
(e)and the development of a plan under subsection
(g)shall be subject to public comment and carried out in consultation with relevant Regional Fishery Management Councils established under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). In this section the term task force means the 30x30 Interagency Task Force established pursuant to subsection (a).
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