§2907 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

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The Secretary must send Congress a report on the results of work done under this chapter by September 30, 2008, and every two years after that. Before sending the report, the Secretary must consider advice from the Council. The report must cover six things: the number of acres of estuary habitat restored with short descriptions of the projects and partners involved; information from the database set up under section 2906(b) about ongoing monitoring to show short‑ and long‑term goals are being met; an estimate of how well different restoration methods are likely to succeed over time; a review of how the acres, monitoring data, and success estimates have been used to pick and carry out projects; a review of efforts to maintain a proper database of projects; and a review of steps taken to give this information to people who help restore estuary habitat.

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(a)Not later than September 30, 2008, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary, after considering the advice and recommendations of the Council, shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of activities carried out under this chapter.

(b)A report under subsection (a) shall include—

(1)data on the number of acres of estuary habitat restored under this chapter, including descriptions of, and partners involved with, projects selected, in progress, and completed under this chapter that comprise those acres;

(2)information from the database established under section 2906(b) of this title related to ongoing monitoring of projects to ensure that short-term and long-term restoration goals are achieved;

(3)an estimate of the long-term success of varying restoration techniques used in carrying out estuary habitat restoration projects;

(4)a review of how the information described in paragraphs (1) through (3) has been incorporated in the selection and implementation of estuary habitat restoration projects;

(5)a review of efforts made to maintain an appropriate database of restoration projects carried out under this chapter; and

(6)a review of the measures taken to provide the information described in paragraphs (1) through (3) to persons with responsibility for assisting in the restoration of estuary habitat.

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Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–114 substituted “Not later than

September 30, 2008, and every 2 years thereafter” for “At the end of the third and fifth fiscal years following

November 7, 2000”.

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