Sec. 110. Definitions
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In this title: The term blue carbon stocks means terrestrial and marine vegetation and underlying sediment that has the capacity to sequester and store atmospheric carbon. The term coastal blue carbon ecosystem means vegetated coastal habitats including mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrasses, kelp forests, and other tidal or salt-water wetlands that have the capacity to sequester carbon from the atmosphere for a period of not less than 100 years. The term coastal carbon area of significance means any area designated by the Administrator under section 107 as a coastal carbon area of significance.
The term grant program means the Blue Carbon Partnership Grant Program established under section 104. The term interagency working group means the Interagency Working Group on Coastal and Marine Blue Carbon established under section 106. The term marine blue carbon means the sequestration of carbon in pelagic and deep sea ecosystems, including in sediments and through the ecosystem impacts of increased biomass of large marine wildlife. The term marine blue carbon ecosystem means habitats that support marine blue carbon.
The term Program means the Blue Carbon Program established under section 101(a).