[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2337 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                 S. 2337

   To establish a grant program to support coastal and water quality 
  restoration activities in States bordering the Great Lakes, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 22, 2004

Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mr. Levin) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a grant program to support coastal and water quality 
  restoration activities in States bordering the Great Lakes, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Great Lakes Community Restoration 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GREAT LAKES RESTORATION GRANTS.

            (a) Authority.--The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 
        U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 306A 
        the following new section:

                    ``great lakes restoration grants

    ``Sec. 306B. (a) In this section:
            ``(1) The term `eligible State' means Illinois, Indiana, 
        Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or 
        Wisconsin.
            ``(2) The term `Great Lakes System' has the meaning given 
        such term in section 118 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
        Act (33 U.S.C 1268).
    ``(b) The Secretary may make grants to a local government of an 
eligible State to assist such local government in restoring or 
preventing the deterioration of--
            ``(1) a coastal resource of national significance or a 
        lighthouse that is--
                    ``(A) associated with the Great Lakes System; and
                    ``(B) located in an eligible State; or
            ``(2) the water quality of coastal waters in the Great 
        Lakes area.
    ``(c) Grants awarded under this section may be used for projects 
such as the following:
            ``(1) Activities to remediate coastal waters in the Great 
        Lakes area that are contaminated by pollution.
            ``(2) Activities to prevent or limit pollutants from 
        nonpoint sources from entering coastal waters in the Great 
        Lakes area.
            ``(3) Activities to restore or prevent deterioration of an 
        estuary-type area of the Great Lakes.
            ``(4) Activities to acquire fee simple or less than fee 
        simple interest in land, waters, or other property to create, 
        or prevent the deterioration of, a coastal resource of national 
        significance related to the Great Lakes System.
            ``(5) Activities to restore or prevent deterioration of a 
        lighthouse that is associated with the Great Lakes System.
    ``(d)(1) The Secretary may award grants under this section for a 
period not to exceed four years.
    ``(2) The Secretary may permit a recipient of a grant under this 
section to renew such grant for one additional period not to exceed 
four years.
    ``(e) A project may be carried out with funds from a grant under 
this section only if the Secretary determines that such project is 
consistent with--
            ``(1) the management program of each eligible State 
        approved under section 306; and
            ``(2) the national policy set out in section 303.
    ``(f) Each local government desiring a grant under this section 
shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such 
manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may 
reasonably require.
    ``(g) The Secretary shall allocate funds appropriated to carry out 
this section for a fiscal year among the eligible States during such 
fiscal year based on the relative score of each such State under a 
formula. The formula shall determine the score for an eligible State as 
follows:
            ``(1) 60 percent of the value of the score shall be based 
        on the mileage of the shoreline of the Great Lakes in such 
        State.
            ``(2) 40 percent of the value of the score shall be based 
        on the size of the population that lives along such shoreline.
    ``(h)(1) The ratio of the Federal-to-non-Federal share of the cost 
of a project carried out with a grant received under this section shall 
be 4 to 1 for each fiscal year.
    ``(2) The non-Federal share of the cost of a project carried out 
with a grant received under this section may include the value of in-
kind services contributed by a non-Federal sponsor.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
Commerce $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2005 through 2008 to 
carry out section 306B of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as 
added by section 2.
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