Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act
Latest action · Mar 27, 2006 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 378.
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 9, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection program to protect the environmental integrity of undeveloped coastal and estuarine areas that: (1) have significant conservation, recreation, ecological, historical, or aesthetic values; and (2) are threatened by conversion from their natural, undeveloped, or recreational state to other uses. Directs the National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to administer the program.
Authorizes the Secretary to make program grants competitively to coastal states with approved coastal zone management plans or National Estuarine Research Reserve units for acquiring property in such areas from willing sellers.
Prohibits more than 75% of the funding for any project from being derived from federal sources. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition for underserved communities, for communities unable to draw on other funding because of small populations or low income, or for other appropriate reasons. Permits appraised land value and costs associated with land acquisition, land management planning, remediation, restoration, and enhancement to be used for the non-federal cost share of a project.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified funding for a regional watershed protection demonstration project that: (1) leverages land acquisition funding from other federal conservation or acquisition programs; (2) involves funding from and participation by multiple federal, state, and nongovernmental entities; (3) creates conservation corridors and preserves unique coastal habitat; (4) protects unfragmented 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 funds for acquisitions benefiting the National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Requires a grant recipient to provide assurances that: (1) acquired property will be held in perpetuity and managed for the purposes for which the property entered the program; or (2) if such property is divested, funds equal to its correct value will be returned to the Secretary for redistribution in the grant process.
Authorizes appropriations.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 9, 2005 to Feb 2, 2006; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-MD | Paul S. Sarbanes | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | Jun 9, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Jun 20, 2005 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Jun 20, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| R-OH | Mike DeWine | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Jul 21, 2005 | |
| R-RI | Lincoln Chafee | Jul 29, 2005 | |
| R-VA | John Warner | Oct 27, 2005 | |
| R-AL | Jeff Sessions | Nov 16, 2005 | |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Nov 17, 2005 | |
| R-SC | Jim DeMint | Feb 1, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Feb 2, 2006 |
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 9, 2005Markup Mar 16, 2006Reported Mar 27, 2006 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2006Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Stevens with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-224.
- Mar 27, 2006Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 378.
- Mar 16, 2006Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jun 9, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jun 9, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6318)
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 S6318 | Judd Gregg R-NH | Jun 9, 2005 |
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
- Mar 20, 2006S. 1215, Coastal and Estuarine Land protection Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on March 16, 2006</p>
- Mar 20, 2006S. 1215, Coastal and Estuarine Land protection ActCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on March 16, 2006
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 109-1148 | THE STATE OF THE OCEANS 200697 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Aug 3, 2006 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3187 | Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act | Related bill | Jun 30, 2005 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to authorize the acquisition of interests in underdeveloped coastal areas in order better to ensure their protection from 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
- Commerce
- Conservation easements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental Protection
- Estuaries
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Forest conservation
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Habitat conservation
- Housing and Community Development
- Land banking
- Land transfers
- Land use
- Landscape protection
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine parks and reserves
- Nonprofit organizations
- Performance measurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Real estate development
- Regional planning
- Social Welfare
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Wetlands
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2006Reported to Senate
- Jun 9, 2005Introduced 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.