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: 
‘‘SEC. 320. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PREPAREDNESS 
AND RESPONSE PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish, 
consistent with the national policies set forth in section 
303, a coastal climate change adaptation preparedness 
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) COASTAL
CLIMATE
CHANGE
ADAPTATION 
PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make a 
grant to any coastal State for the purpose of devel-
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oping climate 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) Adaptive management strategies for 
ocean-based ecosystems and resources, includ-
ing strategies to plan for and respond to geo-
graphic or temporal shifts in marine resources, 
to create protected areas that will provide cli-
mate refugia, and to maintain and restore 
ocean ecosystem function. 
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‘‘(D) 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. 
‘‘(E) 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 
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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-
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.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this section, the Sec-
retary, in consultation with the coastal States, shall 
issue guidelines for the implementation of the grant 
program established under this subsection. 
‘‘(c) COASTAL
CLIMATE
CHANGE
ADAPTATION 
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make 
grants to any coastal State that has a climate 
change adaptation plan approved under subsection 
(b)(7), in order to support projects that implement 
strategies contained within such plans. 
‘‘(2) PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary, not later than 90 days after approval of the 
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first plan approved under subsection (b)(7), shall 
publish in the Federal Register requirements regard-
ing applications, allocations, eligible activities, and 
all terms and conditions for grants awarded under 
this subsection. No less than 30 percent, and no 
more than 50 percent, of the funds appropriated in 
any fiscal year for grants under this subsection shall 
be awarded through a merit-based competitive proc-
ess. 
‘‘(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 
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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. 
‘‘(D) Projects, with priority given to such 
projects that use green infrastructure solutions, 
to reduce, mitigate, or otherwise address likely 
impacts caused by natural hazards in the coast-
al zone, including sea level rise, coastal inunda-
tion, storm water management, coastal erosion 
and subsidence, severe weather events such as 
cyclonic storms, tsunamis and other seismic 
threats, and fluctuating Great Lakes water lev-
els. 
‘‘(E) Projects to adapt existing infrastruc-
ture, including enhancements to both built and 
natural environments. 
‘‘(F) Provision of technical training and 
assistance to local coastal policy makers to in-
crease awareness of science, management, and 
technology 
information 
related 
to 
climate 
change and adaptation strategies. 
‘‘(4) PROMOTION AND USE OF NATIONAL ESTU-
ARINE RESEARCH RESERVES.—The Secretary shall 
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promote and encourage the use of National Estua-
rine Research Reserves as sites for pilot or dem-
onstration projects carried out with grants awarded 
under this section.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
318(a) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 1464(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the 
end of paragraph (1); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (2) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) for grants under section 320, such sums 
as are necessary.’’. 
(c) INTENT OF CONGRESS.—None of the amend-
ments made by this section shall be construed to require 
any coastal State to amend or modify its approved man-
agement program pursuant to section 306(e) of the Coast-
al Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1455(e)) or 
to extend the enforceable policies of a coastal State beyond 
the coastal zone as identified in the coastal State’s ap-
proved management program. 
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