Shovel-Ready Restoration Grants for Coastlines and Fisheries Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7387
Sponsor: Rep. Mucarsel-Powell, Debbie [D-FL-26]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
Aquatic ecology
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Floods and storm protection
Great Lakes
Higher education
Indian lands and resources rights
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
Unemployment
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Shovel-Ready Restoration Grants for Coastlines and Fisheries Act of 2020 

 
This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a grant program to provide funding and technical assistance to states, tribal and local governments, and other entities to carry out projects that restore a marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lakes habitat, or to provide adaptation to climate change that protects coastal communities from sea level rise, coastal storms, or flooding, and blue carbon projects.
 
NOAA must give priority to projects
 
 
 that would stimulate the economy; 
 
for which the applicant can demonstrate that the grant will fund work that will begin not more than 90 days after the date of the award;
 
 for which the applicant can demonstrate that the grant will fund work that will employ fishermen who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic or pay a fisherman for the use of a fishing vessel;
 
for which the applicant can demonstrate that any preliminary study or permit required before the project can begin has been completed or can be completed shortly after an award is made; or
 
that include communities that may not have adequate resources including low income communities, communities of color, tribal communities, and rural communities.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2020-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House