Sec. 503. Report on expanding Coastal Barrier Resources Act to the Pacific Coast, including Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States
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Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and submit a report to Congress on ways to protect undeveloped coastal barriers along the Pacific Coast of the United States, including in the Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States. Such study shall examine the potential for loss of human life and damage to fish, wildlife, and other natural resources, and the potential for the wasteful expenditure of Federal revenues, along the Pacific Coast, giving particular attention to tsunami, flood, erosion, and storm damage, and sea level rise impacts. The report required under subsection
(a)shall evaluate ways in which the definition of the term undeveloped coastal barrier under section 3 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act ( 16 U.S.C. 3502 ) could be expanded to more accurately address the geology and functions of coastal barriers in areas along the Pacific Coast, including in the Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States, including the ways in which coastal bluffs, rocky outcroppings, beaches, wetlands, estuaries, coral reefs, mangroves, and other landforms in such areas function as coastal barriers by absorbing storm impacts, protecting inland communities from sea level rise impacts, providing habitat, and being subject to erosion. As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare maps identifying the boundaries of those undeveloped coastal barriers of the United States along the Pacific Coast, including in the Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress maps identifying the boundaries of those undeveloped coastal barriers of the United States along the Pacific Coast, including the Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States, that the Secretary considers to be appropriate for inclusion in the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System. In this section the term Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States means each of American Samoa, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
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Report on expanding Coastal Barrier Resources Act to the Pacific Coast, including Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States
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