Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Working Waterfronts Act of 2024 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Coastal Energy Sec. 101. Credit for maintaining and enhancing hydroelectric facilities. Sec. 102. Transition to alternative fuel commercial fishing vessels. TITLE II—Fisheries and Seafood Sec. 201. Department of Agriculture loans and grants for fishing and mariculture businesses. Sec. 202. Extension of credit to businesses providing services to producers or harvesters of aquatic products.

Sec. 203. Shellfish mariculture under the national harmful algal bloom and hypoxia program. Sec. 204. Allocation of funds under Saltonstall-Kennedy Act. Sec. 205. Electronic Monitoring Innovation Prize. TITLE III—Shoreside Infrastructure Subtitle A—Rural coastal community processing grants Sec. 301. Definitions. Sec. 302. Action plan and identification of coastal communities. Sec. 303. Grants and cooperative agreements to support rural seafood processing and cold storage. Sec. 304.

Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle B—Working waterfronts preservation Sec. 311. Working waterfront access protection grant program. TITLE IV—Workforce Development Sec. 401. Maritime workforce grant program. Sec. 402. Safety standards for certain fishing vessels. TITLE V—Miscellaneous Subtitle A—Ocean innovation Sec. 501. Definitions. Sec. 502. Ocean Innovation Clusters. Sec. 503. Grants for Ocean Innovation Clusters. Subtitle B—Vegetated coastal ecosystems and Great Lakes ecosystems Sec. 511.

Definitions. Sec. 512. Interagency Working Group on Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems and Great Lakes ecosystems. Sec. 513. National-level map and inventory of vegetated coastal ecosystems and Great Lakes ecosystems. Sec. 514. Grants for pilot projects and research on coastal natural infrastructure in cold climates. Subtitle C—Ocean acidification Sec. 521. Definitions in Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009. Sec. 522. Improvement of collaboration on ocean acidification.

Sec. 523. Technical corrections. Subtitle D—Other matters Sec. 531. Transfer of, and amendments to, the Coastal Aquatic Invasive Species Mitigation Grant Program and mitigation fund.