A bill to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make grants to State and local governments and nongovernmental organizations for purposes of carrying out climate-resilient living shoreline projects that protect coastal communities by supporting ecosystem functions and habitats with the use of natural materials and systems, and for other purposes.
Living Shorelines Act of 2020
This bill revises the National Sea Grant College Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and authorizes NOAA to provide grants to certain coastal states to assist with the design and implementation of climate-resilient living shoreline projects and the application of innovative uses of natural materials and systems to protect coastal communities, habitats, and natural system functions.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Received in the Senate.
Committee Hearings Held.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 257.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-327.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-327.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631.
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