Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act
Latest action · Oct 3, 2002 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 11, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the Secretary to provide $5 million for a regional watershed protection demonstration project that: (1) leverages land acquisition funding from other Federal conservation or acquisition programs; (2) involves partnerships with Federal, State, and non-governmental entities; (3) creates conservation corridors; (4) protects habitats under imminent threat of development or conversion; (5) provides water quality protection for areas under the National Estuarine Research Reserve program; and (6) provides a model for future regional watershed protection projects.
Reserves no less than 15 percent of program funds for acquisitions benefitting the National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Specifies that when property is acquired under this program: (1) title will be held by the grant recipient; (2) property will be managed consistent with the purpose of the program; and (3) funds will be returned to the Secretary if the property is sold, exchanged, or divested.
Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 4) Permits the Secretary to enter into contracts or other arrangements with other Federal agencies in conducting the program of technical assistance and management-oriented research necessary to support the development and implementation of State coastal management program amendments furthering cooperative international coastal zone management.
Cosponsors 25
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 11, 2002 to Oct 7, 2002; 18 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-LA | John B. Breaux | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| R-NH | Judd Gregg | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-GA | Max Cleland | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| R-OH | Mike DeWine | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-MD | Paul S. Sarbanes | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| D-NJ | Robert G. Torricelli | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | Jun 11, 2002 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Jun 12, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Jun 21, 2002 | |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Jun 24, 2002 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Jul 23, 2002 | |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Oct 7, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Referred Jun 11, 2002Markup Sep 19, 2002Reported Oct 3, 2002 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 3, 2002Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Hollings with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 107-296.
- Oct 3, 2002Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633.
- Sep 19, 2002Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jun 11, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Jun 11, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5369-5370)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S5369, S5370 | Ernest F. Hollings D-SC, Judd Gregg R-NH | Jun 11, 2002 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Oct 9, 2002S. 2608, Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on October 3, 2002</p>
- Oct 9, 2002S. 2608, Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection ActCost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on October 3, 2002
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize the acquisition of coastal areas in order better to ensure their protection from conversion or development.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Animals
- Coastal zone
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Conservation easements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental Protection
- Estuarine area conservation
- Estuarine ecology
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Forest conservation
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Habitat conservation
- Historic sites
- History
- Housing and Community Development
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Land banking
- Land transfers
- Landscape protection
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine parks and reserves
- Nonprofit organizations
- Outdoor recreation
- Performance measurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Real estate development
- Regional planning
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Watershed management
- Wetland conservation
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 3, 2002Reported to Senate
- Jun 11, 2002Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
