Federal · Title 16 — Conservation

16 U.S.C. § 1432: Definitions

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“draft management plan” means the plan described in section 1434(a)(1)(C)(v) 1 of this title; 1 See References in Text note below. “Magnuson-Stevens Act” means the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.); “marine environment” means those areas of coastal and ocean waters, the Great Lakes and their connecting waters, and submerged lands over which the United States exercises jurisdiction, including the exclusive economic zone, consistent with international law; “Secretary” means the Secretary of Commerce; “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States; the cost of replacing, restoring, or acquiring the equivalent of a sanctuary resource; and the value of the lost use of a sanctuary resource pending its restoration or replacement or the acquisition of an equivalent sanctuary resource; or the value of a sanctuary resource if the sanctuary resource cannot be restored or replaced or if the equivalent of such resource cannot be acquired; the cost of damage assessments under section 1443(b)(2) of this title ; the reasonable cost of monitoring appropriate to the injured, restored, or replaced resources; the cost of curation and conservation of archeological, historical, and cultural sanctuary resources; and the cost of enforcement actions undertaken by the Secretary in response to the destruction or loss of, or injury to, a sanctuary resource; “response costs” means the costs of actions taken or authorized by the Secretary to minimize destruction or loss of, or injury to, sanctuary resources, or to minimize the imminent risks of such destruction, loss, or injury, including costs related to seizure, forfeiture, storage, or disposal arising from liability under section 1443 of this title ; “sanctuary resource” means any living or nonliving resource of a national marine sanctuary that contributes to the conservation, recreational, ecological, historical, educational, cultural, archeological, scientific, or aesthetic value of the sanctuary; and “exclusive economic zone” means the exclusive economic zone as defined in the Magnuson-Stevens Act; and “System” means the National Marine Sanctuary System established by section 1431 of this title . shall propose regulations implementing the amendments made by this title [enacting sections 1440 to 1445 of this title, amending sections 1432, 1434, and 1437 of this title, and repealing section 1438 of this title ]; and shall issue final regulations implementing the amendments made by the Marine Sanctuaries Amendments of 1984 [enacting sections 1435 to 1439 of this title and amending sections 1431 to 1434 of this title].”

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