SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Chesapeake Bay 
Science, Education, and Ecosystem Enhancement Act of 
2009’’. 
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NOAA CHESAPEAKE BAY OF-
FICE. 
Section 307 of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration Authorization Act of 1992 (15 U.S.C. 
1511d) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘(in this 
section’’ and all that follows and inserting a pe-
riod; 
(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(2) The Office shall be headed by a Director, 
who— 
‘‘(A) shall have knowledge and experience 
in research or resource management efforts in 
the Chesapeake Bay; and 
‘‘(B) shall be responsible for the adminis-
tration and operation of the office and the im-
plementation of this Act.’’; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (3); 
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) by striking so much as precedes para-
graph (1) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to 
focus the relevant science, research, and resource manage-
ment capabilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration as they apply to the Chesapeake Bay and 
to utilize the Office to—’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Sec-
retary of Commerce’’ and inserting ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by striking the matter preceding 
subparagraph (A) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) coordinate the programs and activities of 
the various organizations within the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration in furtherance 
of such administration’s coastal resource steward-
ship mission, including—’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end of 
clause (vi), and by inserting after clause 
(vii) the following: 
‘‘(viii) coastal hazards and climate 
change; and’’; and
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end of 
clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the 
semicolon at the end of clause (iv), and by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(v) 
integrated 
ecosystem 
assess-
ments;’’; 
(D) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Environmental Pro-
tection Agency’’ and inserting ‘‘Chesapeake 
Executive Council’’; and 
(ii) by inserting before the semicolon 
at the end the following: ‘‘as appropriate to 
further purposes of this section’’; 
(E) by striking paragraphs (5) and (7); 
(F) by redesignating paragraph (6) as 
paragraph (5); and 
(G) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) perform any functions necessary to sup-
port the programs referred to in paragraph (3).’’; 
and 
(3) by striking subsection (c) and all that fol-
lows through the end of the section and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
Administrator, 
through the Director, shall implement the program 
activities authorized by this subsection to support 
the activity of the Chesapeake Executive Council and 
to further the purposes of this section. 
‘‘(2) ENSURING
SCIENTIFIC
AND
TECHNICAL 
MERIT.—The Director shall— 
‘‘(A) establish and utilize an effective and 
transparent mechanism to ensure that projects 
funded under this section have undergone ap-
propriate peer review; and 
‘‘(B) provide other appropriate means to 
determine that such projects have acceptable 
scientific and technical merit for the purpose of 
achieving maximum utilization of available 
funds and resources to benefit the Chesapeake 
Bay area. 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION WITH CHESAPEAKE EXEC-
UTIVE COUNCIL.—The Director shall, in the imple-
mentation of the program activities authorized under 
this section, consult with the Chesapeake Executive 
Council, to ensure that the activities of the Office 
are consistent with the purposes and priorities of the 
Chesapeake Bay Agreement and plans developed 
pursuant to the Agreement.
‘‘(4) INTEGRATED COASTAL OBSERVATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator, 
through the Director, may collaborate with sci-
entific and academic institutions, State and 
Federal agencies, non-governmental organiza-
tions, and other constituents in the Chesapeake 
Bay watershed, to support an integrated obser-
vations system for the Chesapeake Bay con-
sistent with the purposes of subtitle C of title 
XII of Public Law 111–11 (33 U.S.C. 3601 et 
seq.). 
‘‘(B) SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS.—To sup-
port the system referred to in subparagraph (A) 
and provide a complete set of environmental in-
formation for the Chesapeake Bay, the Director 
shall— 
‘‘(i) coordinate existing monitoring 
and observing activities in the Chesapeake 
Bay; 
‘‘(ii) identify new data collection needs 
and deploy new technologies, as appro-
priate; 
‘‘(iii) collect and analyze the scientific 
information necessary for the management
of living marine resources and the marine 
habitat associated with such resources; 
‘‘(iv) manage and interpret the infor-
mation described in clause (iii); and 
‘‘(v) organize the information de-
scribed in clause (iii) into products that 
are useful to policy makers, resource man-
agers, scientists, and the public. 
‘‘(C) CHESAPEAKE
BAY
INTERPRETIVE 
BUOY
SYSTEM.—To further the development 
and implementation of the Chesapeake Bay In-
terpretive Buoy System, the Director may— 
‘‘(i) support the establishment and 
implementation of the Captain John Smith 
Chesapeake National Historic Trail; 
‘‘(ii) delineate key waypoints along the 
trail and provide appropriate real-time 
data and information for trail users; 
‘‘(iii) interpret data and information 
for use by educators and students to in-
spire stewardship of Chesapeake Bay; and 
‘‘(iv) incorporate the Chesapeake Bay 
Interpretive Buoy System into the Inte-
grated Ocean Observing System regional 
network of observatories.