Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization of 2003

Bill: 108-s-218
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Authorization
Awards, medals, prizes
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Coral reefs
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental degradation
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fishery management
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
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
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Nonpoint source pollution
Nonprofit organizations
Oceanographic research
Open space lands
Overhead costs
Performance measurement
Planning
Population
Quality of life
Real estate development
Research grants
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
South Atlantic States
State-local relations
Storm drains
Sustainable development
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works
Urban runoff
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water use
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to any coastal State without an approved coastal zone management program if such State demonstrates that its grant will be used to develop a management program consistent with the Act's requirements. 
Allows grants to States for administering a State's coastal zone management program to be used for developing and implementing coastal nonpoint pollution control program components.
Revises provisions respecting: (1) resource management improvement grants; (2) loan repayments; and (3) coastal zone enhancement grants.
Authorizes grants to coastal States to assist in specified community and local activities.
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a cooperative program to develop and apply innovative coastal and estuarine environmental technology and methodology.
Changes from mandatory to discretionary the authority to conduct the "Walter B. Jones Awards" program to promote excellence in coastal zone management by identifying and acknowledging outstanding accomplishments in the field.
Revises National Estuarine Research Reserve System requirements.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere should reevaluate shoreline mileage calculations used in the distribution of funding under the coastal zone management program to ensure equitable treatment of all regions, including Southeastern and Great Lakes States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1493-1494)
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate