Sec. 103. Coral reefs prize competitions
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The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall work with the head of each Federal agency represented on the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force established under Executive Order 13089 (63 Fed. Reg. 32701) to establish prize competitions, in accordance with section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3719 ), that promote coral reef research and conservation in the Insular Areas, the State of Hawaii or Florida, or any other area in the United States or Insular Areas, as determined by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, facing a significant ecological threat due to coral reef die-offs.
Section 204(b)(2) of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 6403(b)(2) ) is amended— by striking the paragraph designation and all that follows through The Administrator and inserting the following: The Administrator ; and by adding at the end the following: The Administrator shall waive the matching requirement under paragraph
(1)for grants to implement State and territorial coral reef conservation cooperative agreements to sustain coral reef management and monitoring in the State of Florida or Hawaii, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the United States Virgin Islands. .
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