(B) a physical, chemical, geological, and 
microbial environment that is supportive of the 
requirements of this paragraph. 
(9) HEALTHY MARINE ECOSYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘healthy marine ecosystem’’ means a marine eco-
system with the ability to support and maintain a 
productive and resilient community of organisms, 
having a species composition, diversity, and func-
tional organization resulting from the natural habi-
tat of the region, such that it provides a complete 
range of ecological benefits, including—
(A) a complete diversity of native species 
and habitats wherein each native species is able 
to maintain an abundance, population struc-
ture, and distribution supporting its ecological 
and evolutionary functions and processes; and 
(B) a physical, chemical, geological, and 
microbial environment that is supportive of the 
requirements of this paragraph. 
(10) ECOSYSTEM-BASED
MANAGEMENT.—The 
term ‘‘ecosystem-based management’’ means an ap-
proach to the management of human activities and 
natural resources affected by such activities that in-
corporates the following: 
(A) Long term ecological sustainability.
(B) Clear, operational goals, with reference 
to a desired future status of ecosystem proc-
esses and components. 
(C) Use of the best available scientific in-
formation regarding ecosystems and their func-
tions, including, but not limited to, multiple in-
dicators, including models and other quan-
titative and qualitative techniques at varying 
scales. 
(D) Awareness of complexity, interconnect-
edness, and resiliency. 
(E) Recognition that ecosystems are dy-
namic. 
(F) Attention to context and scale, as nec-
essary to align decision processes with eco-
system processes that vary across space and 
time. 
(G) Acknowledgement of humans as eco-
system components who must be engaged to 
achieve long term management goals. 
(H) Accountability. 
(I) Identification of uncertainties. 
(J) Adaptiveness, including approaches 
that supplement limited predictive capacities
and respond to changes in ecosystems, informa-
tion, and anthropogenic stressors. 
(11) UNITED
STATES
OCEAN
WATERS.—The 
term ‘‘United States ocean waters’’ means the zone 
extending from the baseline from which the breadth 
of the United States territorial sea is measured to 
the extent of the Exclusive Economic Zone as speci-
fied in Presidential Proclamation Number 5030, 
dated March 10, 1983, including the territorial wa-
ters of the Great Lakes and the waters of the conti-
nental shelf to which the United States is granted 
sovereign rights under international law. 
(12) OCEAN RESOURCES.—The term ‘‘ocean re-
sources’’ means any living, nonliving, or cultural 
amenity in United States ocean waters. 
(13) COASTAL.—The term ‘‘coastal’’ includes 
coastal areas of United States ocean waters of the 
Great Lakes. 
(14) MARINE.—The term ‘‘marine’’ includes of 
or relating to United States ocean waters of the 
Great Lakes. 
(15) REGIONAL
OCEAN
COUNCIL.—The term 
‘‘Regional Ocean Council’’ means such a council es-
tablished by the Administrator under section 703.
(16) OCEAN
REGION.—The term ‘‘ocean re-
gion’’ means such a region designated under section 
702(a). 
(17) QUALIFIED OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF 
REVENUES.—The term ‘qualified Outer Continental 
Shelf revenues’ means (except as otherwise provided 
in this paragraph) all moneys received by the United 
States from each leased tract or portion of a leased 
tract lying seaward of the zone defined and governed 
by section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)), or lying within such zone 
but to which section 8(g) does not apply, the geo-
graphic center of which lies within a distance of 200 
miles from any part of the coastline of any coastal 
State, including bonus bids, rents, royalties (includ-
ing payments for royalty taken in kind and sold), 
net profit share payments, and related late-payment 
interest from natural gas and oil leases issued pur-
suant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 
Such term does not include any revenues from a 
leased tract or portion of a leased tract that is lo-
cated in a geographic area subject to a leasing mora-
torium on January 1, 2001, unless the lease was 
issued prior to the establishment of the moratorium 
and was in production on January 1, 2001.
(18) COASTAL
STATE.—The term ‘‘coastal 
State’’—
(A) means a State of the United States in, 
or bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic 
Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, 
or 1 or more of the Great Lakes; and 
(B) includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is-
lands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territories 
of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa. 
(19) COASTAL
POLITICAL
SUBDIVISION.—The 
term ‘‘coastal political subdivision’’ means a political 
subdivision of a coastal State all or part of which 
political subdivision is within the coastal zone (as de-
fined in section 304 of the Coastal Zone Manage-
ment Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.1453)). 
(20) COASTAL
POPULATION
DENSITY.—The 
term ‘‘coastal population density’’ means the popu-
lation as determined by the most recent census data 
in the States coastal zone as determined pursuant to 
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. (16 
U.S.C.1451 et seq.).