Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the or the Ocean Climate Emergency Action Now Act of 2020 . OCEAN Act of 2020 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I—Marine and Coastal Blue Carbon Sec. 101. Blue Carbon Program. Sec. 102. National map of coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystems. Sec. 103. Report on blue carbon in the United States. Sec. 104. Blue Carbon Partnership Grant Program. Sec. 105. Integrated pilot programs to protect and restore degraded coastal blue carbon ecosystems.

Sec. 106. Interagency working group. Sec. 107. Coastal carbon areas of significance. Sec. 108. Smithsonian Institution blue carbon activities. Sec. 109. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 110. Definitions. TITLE II—Climate-Ready Fisheries and Buy American Seafood Sec. 201. Sense of Congress. Sec. 202. Caught in the USA. Sec. 203. Eliminate fish subsidies in trade agreements. Sec. 204. Climate and fisheries research and management program. Sec. 205. Climate-ready fisheries innovation program.

Sec. 206. Shifting Stocks Task Force. Sec. 207. Essential fish habitat consultation. Sec. 208. Ocean Aquaculture Research and Policy Program. TITLE III—Coastal Zone Management Act amendments Sec. 301. Grants to further achievement of Tribal coastal zone objectives. Sec. 302. Eligibility of District of Columbia for Federal funding under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. Sec. 303. Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program. Sec. 304. Coastal Zone Management Fund. Sec. 305.

Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 306. Amendments to National Estuarine Research Reserve System program. TITLE IV—Coastal Resiliency and Adaptation Sec. 401. Living Shoreline Grant Program. Sec. 402. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration coastal resilience research grants. Sec. 403. Grants for recovering oysters. Sec. 404. Improvements to the National Oceans and Coastal Security Act. Sec. 405. Restoration grants for coastlines and fisheries. Sec. 406. Strategic Climate Change Relocation Initiative and Program.

TITLE V—Ocean Health: Ocean Acidification and Harmful Algal Blooms Subtitle A—Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Sec. 501. State and United States defined. Sec. 502. Coastal community vulnerability assessment. Subtitle B—Ocean Acidification Prize Competitions Sec. 511. Prize competitions. Subtitle C—Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats Research Sec. 521. Purposes. Sec. 522. Definitions. Sec. 523. Interagency working group. Sec. 524. Strategic research plan.

Sec. 525. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ocean acidification activities. Sec. 526. National Science Foundation ocean acidification activities. Sec. 527. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ocean acidification activities. Sec. 528. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle D—South Florida Clean Coastal Waters Sec. 531. South Florida harmful algal blooms and hypoxia assessment and action plan. Subtitle E—Protecting Local Communities from Harmful Algal Blooms Sec. 541.

Algal blooms. Subtitle F—Harmful Algal Bloom Essential Forecasting Sec. 551. Designating certain harmful algal bloom services as excepted services under the Anti-Deficiency Act. Sec. 552. Centers of Excellence in Harmful Algal Bloom Research, Prevention, Response, and Mitigation. TITLE VI—National Ocean Policy, Data, and Coordinated Website for Grant Programs Subtitle A—Regional Ocean Partnerships Sec. 601. Findings; sense of Congress; purposes. Sec. 602. Regional Ocean Partnerships.

Subtitle B—Data and Scientific Coordination Sec. 611. Increased coordination among agencies with respect to data and monitoring. Sec. 612. Interagency Ocean Exploration Committee. Sec. 613. Committee on Ocean Policy. Sec. 614. Building data sources. Sec. 615. National sea level rise risk analysis. Subtitle C—Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Sec. 621. Staggered terms for National Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Advisory Committee. Sec. 622. Integrated coastal and ocean observation system cooperative agreements.

Sec. 623. Reauthorization of Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009. Sec. 624. Advanced Research Projects Agency–Oceans. Subtitle D—Centralized Website for Resiliency Grants Sec. 631. Centralized website for resiliency grants. TITLE VII—Coastal Wetlands Sec. 701. Definitions. Sec. 702. Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program. Sec. 703. Data collection. Sec. 704. Outreach and technical assistance. Sec. 705. Annual restoration and funding. Sec. 706. Prevailing wage requirement.

Sec. 707. Department of the Interior coastal wetland restoration; funding.