# 117-hr-4458: KELP Act

117-hr-4458, KELP Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA); status Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 415. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-4458
- Congress: 117
- Title: KELP Act
- Status: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 415.
- Introduced: 2021-07-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 13
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Keeping Ecostystems Living and Productive Act or the KELP Act This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to award grants to carry out projects related to the conservation, restoration, or management of kelp forest ecosystems. NOAA shall award grants for projects that address greatest relative regional declines in kelp forest ecosystems; focus on, among other things, long term ecosystem resilience, kelp forest seeding and connectivity, or urchin removal; or are identified by federal or state restoration and management plans as focal areas for recovery of kelp forests and associated species.

## Cosponsors (13)

- Rep. Barragán, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44] (D-CA), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] (D-CA), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12] (D-CA), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5] (D-MO), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19] (D-CA), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (D-OR), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50] (D-CA), 2021-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA), 2021-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] (D-WA), 2022-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2022-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [117-hr-4458 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4458)

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