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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-315
DIGITAL COAST ACT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2189]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2189) to require the Secretary of Commerce, acting
through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration, to establish a constituent-driven program to
provide a digital information platform capable of efficiently inte-
grating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best
practices and to support collection of priority coastal geospatial
data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal ca-
pacities to manage the coastal region, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommend 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 Digital Coast Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The Digital Coast is a model approach for effective Federal partnerships
with State and local government, nongovernmental organizations, and the pri-
vate sector.
(2) Access to current, accurate, uniform, and standards-based geospatial infor-
mation, tools, and training to characterize the United States coastal region is
critical for public safety and for the environment, infrastructure, and economy
of the United States.
(3) More than half of all people of the United States (153,000,000) currently
live on or near a coast and an additional 12,000,000 are expected in the next
decade.
(4) Coastal counties in the United States average 300 persons per square
mile, compared with the national average of 98.
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