Sec. 403. Report on expanding Coastal Barrier Resources Act to the Pacific Coast, including Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States
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In this section, the following definitions apply: 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. The term undeveloped coastal barrier has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act ( 16 U.S.C. 3502 ) (as amended by section 501). Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall prepare and submit a report to Congress on ways to integrate the Pacific Coast of the United States, including in the Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States into the John H.
Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System. The Secretary shall prepare the report required under subsection (b)— in consultation with the Governors of the affected States, territories, and Freely Associated States; and after providing an opportunity for the submission and consideration of public comments. The report required under subsection
(a)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; consider the biophysical processes needed to maintain habitat functions and coastal resiliency, accounting for climate and land use change; and 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 three years after the date of submission of the report under subsection (b), 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.
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Sec. 403
Report on expanding Coastal Barrier Resources Act to the Pacific Coast, including Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States
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