Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term Administrator means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in the Under Secretary’s capacity as the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The term coastal blue carbon ecosystems means vegetated coastal habitats, including mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrasses, kelp forests, and other tidal or salt-water wetlands, that have the ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, accumulate carbon in biomass for years to decades, and store carbon in soils for centuries to millennia.
The term coastal blue carbon ecosystems includes autochthonous carbon and allochthonous carbon. The term Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse means the Coastal Carbon Data Clearinghouse operated by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The term Interagency Working Group means the Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon established under section 3(a). 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.