Sec. 102. National map of coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystems
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The Administrator, in consultation with the interagency working group established under section 106, shall— produce and maintain, by updating every three years, a national map and inventory of coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystems in the coastal zone, the territorial waters of the United States, and the United States Exclusive Economic Zone including— with respect to each such ecosystem— the species and types of habitat in the ecosystem; the condition of such habitats including whether a habitat is degraded, drained, eutrophic, or tidally restricted; the type of public or private ownership relating to such ecosystem and any protected status; the size of the ecosystem; the salinity boundaries of the ecosystem; the tidal boundaries of the ecosystem; an assessment of carbon sequestration potential, methane production, and net greenhouse gas effects of the ecosystem— quantifying the amount of carbon stored in a particular geographic area; the degree to which such amounts can be verified; determination of how much additional carbon may be stored in such an area due to further carbon sequestration; and the permanence of such existing and future carbon storage; an assessment of the ecosystem co-benefits, such as habitat for commercial, recreational, indigenous, and Tribal fisheries, biodiversity, flood risk reduction, wave stress, storm protection, shoreline stabilization, public access, water and air pollution filtration, contributions to traditional and cultural practices, maintenance of biodiversity, and recreational use and benefits of the ecosystem; the potential for landward migration of each ecosystem as a result of sea level rise; an assessment of any upstream structures or pollution sources that threaten the health of each blue carbon ecosystem; proximity of the ecosystem to aquaculture uses or lease areas; and a depiction of the effects of human stressors, including the conversion of blue carbon ecosystems to other land uses and the cause of such conversion; and a depiction of the effects of climate change, including sea level rise, ocean acidification, ocean warming, and other environmental stressors on the sequestration rate, carbon storage, and carbon sequestration and storage potential of blue carbon ecosystems; and in carrying out paragraph (1)— incorporate, to the extent possible, data collected through federally and State funded research, including data collected from— the Coastal Change Analysis Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the National Wetlands Inventory of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; biologic carbon sequestration information of the United States Geological Survey; information from the Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge of the United States Geological Survey and Federal Emergency Management Agency; biological and environmental research from the Department of Energy; national aquatic resource surveys of the Environmental Protection Agency; and data from the National Coastal Blue Carbon Assessment of the Department of Agriculture; and engage regional experts for additional peer-reviewed data to ensure that best available scientific information is incorporated.
The interagency working group shall use the national map and inventory created pursuant to subsection (a)— to assess the existing and potential carbon sequestration of different blue carbon ecosystems, and account for any regional differences; to assess and quantify emissions from degraded and destroyed blue carbon ecosystems; to assist in the development of regional assessments and to provide technical assistance to regional, State, Tribal, and local government agencies, regional information coordination entities (as such term is defined in section 12303(6) of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act ( 33 U.S.C. 3602 )), and agencies, organizations, and other entities that support communities that may not have adequate resources, including low-income communities, communities of color, Tribal communities, Indigenous communities, and rural communities; to assist in efforts to assess degraded coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystems and their potential for restoration, including vulnerability assessments and developing scenario modeling to identify vulnerable areas where management, protection, and restoration efforts should be focused, including the potential for an ecosystem to migrate inland to adapt to sea level rise; and to produce predictions of blue carbon ecosystems and carbon sequestration rates in the context of climate change, environmental stressors, and human stressors.
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