Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committees on Natural Resources and Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The term coastal blue carbon ecosystem — means a coastal habitat, including a mangrove forest, a tidal marsh, a shrub-dominated or -forested tidal swamp, a kelp forest, a tidal mudflat, seagrass, coastal subtidal sediment, and other tidal freshwater, brackish, or salt-water wetlands, that has the ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, accumulate such sequestered carbon in biomass for years to decades, and store such sequestered carbon in soil for centuries to millennia; and includes— autochthonous carbon ecosystems; and allochthonous carbon ecosystems.
The term Indian Tribe has the meaning given such term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5304 ). The term Interagency Working Group means the Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon established under section 3(a). The term regional coastal observing system has the meaning given the term in section 12303 of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009 ( 33 U.S.C. 3602 ). The term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each territory and possession of the United States.
The term Subcommittee means the Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology of the National Science and Technology Council. The term Undersecretary means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in the Under Secretary’s capacity as the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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