Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007
Latest action · Jun 7, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7367-7370)
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 7, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to declare that it is the national policy to: (1) create and use a National Estuarine Research Reserve System; and (2) encourage innovative coastal management practices and coastal and estuarine environmental technologies to improve long-term conservation.
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to coastal states for development of coastal zone management programs.
Allows the use of state coastal zone management program grants to develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution control program components.
Revises the eligible uses of resource management improvement grants and resource management improvement grant requirements.
Revises requirements for the Coastal Zone Management Fund. Requires state loan repayments to the Fund to be made available to make grants to states for intrastate as well as interstate projects. Requires such projects to apply an integrated, watershed-based management approach and advance the purpose of this Act.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) states for implementing coastal zone management program changes, or for projects that demonstrate significant potential for improving ocean resource management or integrated coastal and watershed management at the local, state, or regional level; and (2) coastal states to assist in specified community and local activities, including coastal resource protection and community revitalization.
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a cooperative program to develop and apply innovative coastal and estuarine environmental technology and methodology and to support the development, application, training and technical assistance, and transfer of effective coastal management practices.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 7, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Jun 7, 2007 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jun 7, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 7, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jun 7, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7367-7370)
- Jun 7, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7366-7367)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5451 | Coastal Zone Reauthorization Act of 2008 | Text similarities | Jun 4, 2008 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Alaska
- Animals
- Authorization
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Barrier islands
- Coastal zone
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continental shelf
- Coral reefs
- Department of Commerce
- Ecological research
- Economic development
- Economic growth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Energy
- Energy storage
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental education
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Estuaries
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fishery management
- Gas in submerged lands
- Gifts
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Great Lakes
- Habitat conservation
- Housing and Community Development
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Interstate relations
- Islands
- Land transfers
- Land use
- Law
- Liquefied natural gas
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine ecology
- Marine parks and reserves
- Marine pollution
- Marine resources conservation
- Nonpoint source pollution
- Nonprofit organizations
- Oceanographic research
- Open space lands
- Overhead costs
- Performance measurement
- Petroleum in submerged lands
- Planning
- Population
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Quality of life
- Real estate development
- Research grants
- Restoration ecology
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- South Atlantic States
- State-local relations
- Storm drains
- Submarine oil well drilling
- Sustainable development
- Technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Transportation and Public Works
- Urban runoff
- Waste disposal in the ocean
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- Water use
- Watersheds
- Wetlands
- Wildlife management
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