Sec. 105. Integrated pilot programs to protect and restore degraded blue carbon ecosystems
204 words·~1 min read·
/bill/117/hr/3764/rh/section-105A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
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 protection and restoration, nature-based adaptation strategies, living shoreline projects, landward progression or migration of blue carbon ecosystems, and identify potential barriers to protection and 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 and sequestration; establish a procedure for reviewing applications for the pilot program, taking into account— 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; 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.