SEC. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS IN THE COAST-
AL ZONE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Coastal Zone Management 
Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PREPAREDNESS AND 
RESPONSE PROGRAM 
‘‘SEC. 320. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
establish, consistent with the national policies set forth in 
section 303, a coastal climate change adaptation prepared-
ness and response program to— 
‘‘(1) provide assistance to coastal states to vol-
untarily develop coastal climate change adaptation 
plans, pursuant to approved management programs 
approved under section 306, to minimize contribu-
tions to climate change and to prepare for and re-
duce the negative consequences that may result from 
climate change in the coastal zone; and 
‘‘(2) provide financial and technical assistance 
and training to enable coastal states to implement 
plans developed pursuant to this section through 
coastal states’ enforceable policies. 
‘‘(b) CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PREPARED-
NESS GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, subject to 
the availability of appropriations, may make a grant 
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to any coastal state for the purpose of developing cli-
mate change adaptation plans pursuant to guidelines 
issued by the Secretary under paragraph (8). 
‘‘(2) PLAN CONTENT.—A plan developed with a 
grant under this subsection shall include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) Identification of public facilities and 
public services, working waterfronts, coastal re-
sources of national significance, coastal waters, 
energy facilities, or other land and water uses 
located in the coastal zone that are likely to be 
impacted by climate change. 
‘‘(B) Adaptive management strategies for 
land use to respond or adapt to changing envi-
ronmental conditions, including strategies to 
protect biodiversity, protect water quality, and 
establish habitat buffer zones, migration cor-
ridors, and climate refugia. 
‘‘(C) Requirements to initiate and main-
tain long-term monitoring of environmental 
change to assess coastal zone adaptation and to 
adjust when necessary adaptive management 
strategies and new planning guidelines to attain 
the policies under section 303. 
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‘‘(D) Other information considered nec-
essary by the Secretary to identify the full 
range of climate change impacts affecting coast-
al communities. 
‘‘(3) STATE
HAZARD
MITIGATION
PLANS.— 
Plans developed with a grant under this subsection 
shall be consistent with State hazard mitigation 
plans and natural disaster response and recovery 
programs developed under State or Federal law. 
‘‘(4) ALLOCATION.—Grants under this sub-
section shall be available only to coastal states with 
management programs approved by the Secretary 
under section 306 and shall be allocated among such 
coastal states in a manner consistent with regula-
tions promulgated pursuant to section 306(c). 
‘‘(5) PRIORITY.—In the awarding of grants 
under this subsection, the Secretary may give pri-
ority to any coastal state that has received grant 
funding to develop program changes pursuant to 
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), and (8) of sec-
tion 309(a). 
‘‘(6) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
may provide technical assistance to a coastal state 
consistent with section 310 to ensure the timely de-
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velopment of plans supported by grants awarded 
under this subsection. 
‘‘(7) FEDERAL APPROVAL.—In order to be eligi-
ble for a grant under subsection (c), a coastal state 
must have its plan developed under this subsection 
approved by the Secretary. 
‘‘(8) GUIDELINES.—Within 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this section, the Secretary, in 
consultation with the coastal states, shall issue 
guidelines for the implementation of the grant pro-
gram established under this subsection. 
‘‘(c) COASTAL ADAPTATION PROJECT GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, subject to 
the availability of appropriations, may make grants 
to any coastal state that has a climate change adap-
tation plan approved under subsection (b)(7), in 
order to support projects that implement strategies 
contained within such plans. 
‘‘(2) PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary, within 90 days after approval of the first 
plan approved under subsection (b)(7), shall publish 
in the Federal Register requirements regarding ap-
plications, allocations, eligible activities, and all 
terms and conditions for grants awarded under this 
subsection. No less than 30 percent, and no more 
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than 50 percent, of the funds appropriated in any 
fiscal year for grants under this subsection shall be 
awarded through a merit-based competitive process. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE
ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary 
may award grants to coastal states to implement 
projects in the coastal zone to address stress factors 
in order to improve coastal climate change adapta-
tion, including the following: 
‘‘(A) Activities to address physical disturb-
ances within the coastal zone, especially activi-
ties related to public facilities and public serv-
ices, tourism, sedimentation, ocean acidification, 
and other factors negatively impacting coastal 
waters. 
‘‘(B) Monitoring, control, or eradication of 
disease organisms and invasive species. 
‘‘(C) Activities to address the loss, deg-
radation, or fragmentation of wildlife habitat 
through projects to establish or protect marine 
and terrestrial habitat buffers, wildlife refugia, 
other wildlife refuges, or networks thereof, pres-
ervation of migratory wildlife corridors and 
other transition zones, and restoration of fish 
and wildlife habitat. 
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