Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§8304 Reports

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 102— - COASTAL HABITAT CONSERVATION › § 8304

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

By one year after December 11, 2024, and every year after, the Secretary (through the Director of the Service) must send a report about the Coastal Program to the House Appropriations and Natural Resources Committees and the Senate Appropriations and Environment and Public Works Committees, and must put the report on the Service’s website. Each report must review work on coastal ecosystems regionally and nationwide, report progress in finding top threats and conservation actions, and describe how well protection, restoration, and enhancement are going. It must also give numbers on coastal areas helped, show funds spent or leveraged, explain adaptive management used, and note new challenges or data gaps.

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Title 16, §8304

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(a)Not later than 1 year after December 11, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Service, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations and Environment and Public Works of the Senate, and make available to the public on the website of the Service, a report on the Coastal Program carried out under this chapter.

(b)Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall assess on regional and nationwide bases—

(1)Coastal Program work on coastal ecosystems;

(2)progress made by the Coastal Program toward identifying the leading threats to priority coastal landscapes and conservation actions to address those threats; and

(3)prospects for, and success of, protecting, restoring, and enhancing coastal ecosystems.

(c)Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall include—

(1)quantitative information on coastal landscapes protected, restored, or enhanced;

(2)funds appropriated to the Coastal Program that have been expended or leveraged;

(3)a description of adaptive management practices implemented; and

(4)a description of emerging challenges or data gaps that hinder the ability of the Coastal Program to achieve the purpose of this chapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 8304

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73