16 U.S.C. § 6456: Definitions

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Names which groups of Congress count as the "appropriate congressional committees." Those are the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Environment and Public Works; Energy and Natural Resources; and the House Committee on Natural Resources. Says that several coral-related words — conservation, coral, coral reef, coral reef ecosystem, covered reef manager, covered State, Federal reef manager, National Coral Reef Resilience Strategy, restoration, resilience, and State — get their meanings from section 6415.

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In this subchapter:

(1)Appropriate congressional committees

The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;

(B)the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;

(C)the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and

(D)the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.

(2)Conservation, coral, coral reef, etc.

The terms “conservation”, “coral”, “coral reef”, “coral reef ecosystem”, “covered reef manager”, “covered State”, “Federal reef manager”, “National Coral Reef Resilience Strategy”, “restoration”, “resilience”, and “State” have the meanings given those terms in section 6415 of this title, as added by this division.

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This division, referred to in par. (2), is div. J of Pub. L. 117–263, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3930. For complete classification of div. J to the Code, see Tables.

§6456 Definitions

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