§2801 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

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Creates a national program with eight goals to watch and protect the country’s coastal ecosystems. It sets up steady, long-term water-quality checks for priority coastal areas; tests and improves the science and technology used for monitoring; creates common measures of coastal health; sends regular reports to Congress; shares monitoring data; and gives data to state programs under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 and to programs under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act so they can plan and control coastal pollution.

Title 33, §2801

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The purposes of this chapter are to—

(1)establish a comprehensive national program for consistent monitoring of the Nation’s coastal ecosystems;

(2)establish long-term water quality assessment and monitoring programs for high priority coastal waters that will enhance the ability of Federal, State, and local authorities to develop and implement effective remedial programs for those waters;

(3)establish a system for reviewing and evaluating the scientific, analytical, and technological means that are available for monitoring the environmental quality of coastal ecosystems;

(4)establish methods for identifying uniform indicators of coastal ecosystem quality;

(5)provide for periodic, comprehensive reports to Congress concerning the quality of the Nation’s coastal ecosystems;

(6)establish a coastal environment information program to distribute coastal monitoring information;

(7)provide state 11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. programs authorized under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) with information necessary to design land use plans and coastal zone regulations that will contribute to the protection of coastal ecosystems; and

(8)provide certain water pollution control programs authorized under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) with information necessary to design and implement effective coastal water pollution controls.

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The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, referred to in par. (7), is title III of Pub. L. 89–454 as added by Pub. L. 92–583, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1280, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1451 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1451 of Title 16 and Tables. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in par. (8), is act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, as amended generally by Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816, which is classified generally to chapter 26 (§ 1251 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1251 of this title and Tables.

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Title V of Pub. L. 92–532, which comprises this chapter, is popularly known as the “National Coastal Monitoring Act”.

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