En Bloc #1
Hastings (D-FL) – Amendment No. 1 - Expands the list of eligible activities for the award of Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation Grants to include projects to address the immediate and long-term degradation or loss of coral and coral reefs
Hastings (D-FL) – Amendment No. 2 - Includes coral reefs as eligible under the National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships program
Morelle (D-NY) – Amendment No. 3 - Ensure that up to 5 percent of the funds appropriated under this section will be used by the Secretary to provide technical assistance, which will help accelerate early-stage resources and planning assistance for communities
McEachin (D-VA) – Amendment No. 5 - Includes communities that may not have the resources necessary to prepare for or respond to coastal hazards to the list of priority areas the NOAA Administrator shall consider when determining living shoreline projects to receive federal grants. These communities include low-income communities, communities of color, Tribal communities, and rural communities.
Lipinski (D-IL) – Amendment No. 7 - Requires that climate change adaptation plans for Great Lakes coastal states shall include adaptive management strategies for Great Lakes ecosystems and resources.
Moore (D-WI) – Amendment No. 10 - Amend the Climate Change Adaption program to add invasive species as a target of the adaptive management strategies to be included in the plans and to require such proposals to describe how they will involve and address concerns regarding the impact of climate change in coastal communities on nearby tribes and low-income and low-resource communities
Moore (D-WI) – Amendment No. 11 - Amends the Living Shoreline Grant Program to require plans to include an education and outreach component for the community stakeholders most affected by the proposal and to add tribes and tribal organizations to the list that the Administrator may consult with in developing program standards
Higgins, Brian (D-NY) – Amendment No. 13 - Directs USGS research to include the impacts of harmful algal blooms, nutrient pollution, and dead zones on Great Lakes fisheries
Speier (D-CA), Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 15 - Specifies that “built and natural environments” in terms of infrastructure would include sea walls and living shorelines
Bonamici (D-OR), Crist (D-FL) – Amendment No. 16 - Adds studying coastal acidification and hypoxia as allowable activities through the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation Grant program
Bonamici (D-OR) – Amendment No. 17 - Directs NOAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to assess the need for and feasibility of establishing an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Oceans (ARPA-O)
Kildee (D-MI) – Amendment No. 18 - Requires NOAA to update the Environmental Sensitivity Index for the Great Lakes every seven years
Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 19 - Permits a waiver of certain non-Federal contribution requirements for a fish habitat conservation project at the discretion of the Secretary
Jayapal (D-WA), Haaland (D-NM) – Amendment No. 20 - Amends the legislation to increase the membership of the Fish Habitat Board by one seat to provide an additional seat for tribal representation
Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 21 - Amends the legislation to ensure that grant funds awarded through the Living Shoreline Grant Program may be used to incentivize landowners to engage in living shoreline projects
Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 22 - Amends the legislation to ensure that in developing minimum standards to be used in selecting eligible entities to receive grants under the Living Shoreline Grant Program, the Administrator
considers entities with systems to disburse funding from a single grant to support multiple small-scale projects
Levin, Andy (D-MI) – Amendment No. 24 - Specifies avian habitat protection and restoration projects as eligible activities to be considered for the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation grants in this bill
Levin, Andy (D-MI) – Amendment No. 25 - Adds research into the effects of PFAS chemicals, mercury, and other contaminants on fisheries and fishery ecosystems to the list of research activities that may be conducted in the Great Lakes Basin by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Rouda (D-CA) – Amendment No. 27 - Adds a new section to the bill for a prize competition to stimulate innovation to advance coastal risk and resilience measures
Rouda (D-CA) – Amendment No. 28 - Adds a new section to the bill that would require the development of a catalog of research on applicable coastal risk reduction and resilience measures
Brown (D-MD) – Amendment No. 4 - Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to award grants to eligible entities for collaborative research projects on the conservation, restoration, or management of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Huizenga (R-MI) – Amendment No. 6 - Requires no less than 10 percent of the funds awarded under the Living Shoreline grant program be available to projects located within the Great Lakes
Katko (R-NY), Brindisi (D-NY), Morelle (D-NY), Stefanik (R-NY) – Amendment No. 8 - Adds research on harmful algal bloom development to U.S. Geological Survey research conducted under H.R. 729
Katko (R-NY), Brindisi (D-NY), Morelle (D-NY) – Amendment No. 9 - Provides grant eligibility under H.R. 729 to projects that assess the impact of water level regulating practices on the Great Lakes on coastal resiliency
Crist (D-FL), Rooney (R-FL), Bonamici (D-OR), Kaptur (D-OH), Hastings (D-FL) – Amendment No. 12 - Clarifies that Section 323, the Climate Change Adaptation Preparedness and Response Program, includes projects to address
harmful algal blooms
Panetta (D-CA), Waltz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 14 - Adds a finding that collaborations and partnerships between institutions of higher education and Federal agencies help ensure digital data focused on coastal management issues are communicated effectively between such entities
Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) – Amendment No. 23 - Ensures that corals are included as a natural element eligible for grants provided for by the Living Shoreline Grant Program
Luria (D-VA) – Amendment No. 26 - Directs NOAA to consider the potential of a living shoreline project to support the resiliency of military communities when developing criteria for grant applications
Johnson, Mike (R-LA) – Amendment No. 29 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to limit the scope of the moratorium on taking and importing marine mammals and marine mammal products, and revises the requirements for obtaining an authorization for incidentally taking by harassment marine mammals
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