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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-81
COASTAL COMMUNITIES OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ACT OF
2019
MAY 23, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, from the Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1716]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 1716) to direct the Secretary of Commerce,
acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration, to conduct coastal community vulner-
ability assessments related to ocean acidification, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do
pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. A m en dm en t ............................................................................................... 2
II. P u rpose of th e B ill ..................................................................................... 3
III. Background and Need for the Legislation ............................................... . 3
IV . Com m ittee H earings ................................................................................. 4
V. Committee Consideration and Votes ......................................................... 5
VI. Summary of M ajor Provisions of the Bill ................................................. 6
VII. Section-by-Section Analysis (By Title and Section) ................................. 6
V III. C om m ittee V iew s ....................................................................................... 6
IX . C ost E stim ate .............................................................................................. 7
X. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................ 7
XI. Compliance with Public Law 104-4 (Unfunded Mandates) .................... 8
XII. Committee Oversight Findings and Recommendations .......................... 9
XIII. Statement on General Performance Goals and Objectives ...................... 9
XIV. Federal Advisory Committee Statement ................................................... 9
XV. Duplication of Federal Program s ............................................................... 9
XV I. E arm ark Identification ............................................................................. 9
XVII. Applicability to the Legislative Branch ..................................................... 9
XVIII. Statement on Preemption of State, Local, or Tribal Law ........................ 9
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