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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-671
COASTAL HABITAT CONSERVATION ACT OF 2023
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2950]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2950) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through
the Coastal Program of the United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice, to work with willing partners and provide support to efforts to
assess, protect, restore, and enhance important coastal landscapes
that provide fish and wildlife habitat on which certain Federal
trust species depend, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to legislatively authorize the Coastal Program of the
Service in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act to conduct collaborative
landscape-level planning and on-the-ground coastal habitat assessment, coastal
habitat protection, coastal habitat restoration, and coastal habitat enhancement
projects in priority coastal landscapes to conserve and recover Federal trust species.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) COASTAL ECOSYSTEM.-The term coastal ecosystem means a biological
community of organisms interacting with each other and their habitats in a
coastal landscape.
(2) COASTAL HABITAT ASSESSMENT.-The term coastal habitat assessment
means the process of evaluating the physical, chemical, and biological function
of a coastal site to determine the value of the site to fish and wildlife.
(3) COASTAL HABITAT ENHANCEMENT.-The term coastal habitat enhance-
ment means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological character-
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