Sec. 1101. Purposes
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The purposes of this subtitle are as follows: To complement and expand cooperative voluntary efforts intended to manage, conserve, and restore ocean and coastal areas spanning across multiple State boundaries. To expand Federal support for monitoring, data management, and restoration activities in ocean and coastal areas. To commit the United States to a comprehensive cooperative program to achieve improved water quality in, and improvements in the productivity of living resources of, all coastal ecosystems.
To authorize regional ocean partnerships as intergovernmental coordinators for shared interstate, Tribal, Indigenous, and regional priorities relating to the collaborative management of the large marine ecosystems, thereby reducing duplication of efforts and maximizing opportunities to leverage support in the ocean and coastal regions. To empower States and Tribes to take a lead role in managing oceans and coasts. To incorporate Tribal interests in the management of our oceans and coasts and provide funding to support Tribal and Indigenous ocean and coastal resiliency activities in coordination with regional ocean partnerships.
To enable regional ocean partnerships, or designated fiscal management entities of such partnerships, to receive Federal funding to conduct the scientific research, conservation and restoration activities, and priority coordination on shared regional priorities necessary to achieve the purposes described in paragraphs
(1)through (4).