Sec. 131. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 131 DEFINITIONS **[**[33 U.S.C. 1981](/us/usc/t33/s1981)**]** In this Act: ####
(1)Circular economy The term “**circular economy**” has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116–224). ####
(2)Coastal shoreline community The term “**coastal shoreline community**” means a city or county directly adjacent to the open ocean, major estuaries, or the Great Lakes. ####
(3)EPA administrator The term “**EPA Administrator**” has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116–224). ####
(4)Indian tribe The term “**Indian Tribe**” has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). ####
(5)Interagency committee The term “**Interagency Committee**” means the Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee established under section 5 of this Act. ####
(6)Marine debris The term “**marine debris**” means any persistent solid material that is manufactured or processed and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, disposed of or abandoned into the marine environment or the Great Lakes. ####
(7)MARPOL; annex v; convention The terms “**MARPOL**”, “**Annex V**”, and “**Convention**” have the meaning given those terms under section 2(a) of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 1901(a)). ####
(8)Non-federal funds The term “**non-Federal funds**” means funds provided by— #####
(A)a State; #####
(B)an Indian Tribe; #####
(C)a territory of the United States; #####
(D)one or more units of local governments or Tribal organizations ; #####
(E)a foreign government; #####
(F)a private for-profit entity; #####
(G)a nonprofit organization; or #####
(H)a private individual. #### (12)2 Severe marine debris event The term “**severe marine debris event**” means atypically large amounts of marine debris caused by a natural disaster, including a tsunami, flood, landslide, or hurricane, or other source. 2The placement of paragraph
(12)(previously designated as paragraph (6)), as redesignated by section 5(a)(2) of Public Law 119–65, is so in law. There should have been an amendment instruction to transfer paragraph
(12)(as redesignated) to appear before paragraph
(13)(as redesignated). ####
(9)Nonprofit organization The term “**nonprofit organization**” has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116–224). ####
(10)Post consumer materials management The term “**post-consumer materials management**” has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116–224). ####
(11)Program The term “**Program**” means the Marine Debris Program established under section 3. ####
(13)State The term “**State**” means— #####
(A)any State of the United States that is impacted by marine debris within its seaward or Great Lakes boundaries; #####
(B)Indian Tribe; #####
(C)the District of Columbia; #####
(D)American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; and #####
(E)any other territory or possession of the United States, or separate sovereign in free association with the United States, that is impacted by marine debris within its seaward boundaries. ####
(14)Tribal government The term “**Tribal Government**” means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the date of the enactment of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131). ####
(15)Tribal organization The term “**Tribal organization**” has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). ####
(16)Under secretary The term “**Under Secretary**” has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116–224).
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