Sec. 105. Integrated pilot programs to protect and restore degraded coastal blue carbon ecosystems
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The Administrator shall— establish integrated pilot programs that— develop best management practices, including design criteria and performance functions, for coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystem restoration, nature-based adaptation strategies, living shoreline projects, and landward progression or migration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems; and identify potential barriers to restoration efforts; ensure that the pilot programs— cover geographically, ecologically, culturally, and economically representative locations with significant ecological, economic, and social benefits; and maximize potential for long-term carbon storage; establish a procedure for reviewing applications for the pilot programs, taking into account— quantification; verifiability; additionality, as compared to a historical baseline; and permanence of those benefits; ensure, through consultation with the interagency working group, that the goals, metrics, monitoring, and outcomes of the pilot programs are communicated to the appropriate State, Tribal, and local governments, and to the general public; and coordinate with relevant Federal agencies on the interagency working group to prevent unnecessary duplication of effort among Federal agencies and departments with respect to protection and restoration programs.