Bills & Legislation - "To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to award grants to certain entities for purposes of carrying out climate-resilient living shoreline projects that protect coastal communities, and for other purposes."
beSpacific 2021-07-24
Summary:
Title: To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to award grants to certain entities for purposes of carrying out climate-resilient living shoreline projects that protect coastal communities, and for other purposes. Source: Bills & Legislation Data/Action: Introduced in House Date: 6/29/2021 Text Preview: ...natural materials to create buffers to attenuate the impact of coastal storms, currents, flooding, and wave energy and to prevent or minimize shoreline erosion while... ...of the project site, particularly those environmental conditions affected by climate change; (iii) the net ecological benefits of the project, including the potential... ...attenuating the impact of coastal storms and storm surge; (III) mitigating shoreline flooding; (IV) mitigating the effects of sea level rise...