Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1579
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alaska
Animals
Authorization
Awards, medals, prizes
Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continental shelf
Coral reefs
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Energy
Energy storage
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
Gas in submerged lands
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
Liquefied natural gas
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine parks and reserves
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Nonpoint source pollution
Nonprofit organizations
Oceanographic research
Open space lands
Overhead costs
Performance measurement
Petroleum in submerged lands
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
Submarine oil well drilling
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: 2007-06-07
text: 
Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to declare that it is the national policy to: (1) create and use a National Estuarine Research Reserve System; and (2) encourage innovative coastal management practices and coastal and estuarine environmental technologies to improve long-term conservation.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to coastal states for development of coastal zone management programs.
 
Allows the use of state coastal zone management program grants to develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution control program components. 
Revises the eligible uses of resource management improvement grants and resource management improvement grant requirements. 
 
Revises requirements for the Coastal Zone Management Fund. Requires state loan repayments to the Fund to be made available to make grants to states for intrastate as well as interstate projects. Requires such projects to apply an integrated, watershed-based management approach and advance the purpose of this Act. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) states for implementing coastal zone management program changes, or for projects that demonstrate significant potential for improving ocean resource management or integrated coastal and watershed management at the local, state, or regional level; and (2) coastal states to assist in specified community and local activities, including coastal resource protection and community revitalization. 
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a cooperative program to develop and apply innovative coastal and estuarine environmental technology and methodology and to support the development, application, training and technical assistance, and transfer of effective coastal management practices. 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7367-7370)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7366-7367)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate