[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4732 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4732

   To authorize Federal agencies to establish prize competitions for 
   innovation or adaptation management development relating to ocean 
                             acidification.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2014

 Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Ms. Herrera Beutler, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Heck of 
 Washington, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Peters of California, and Mr. Reichert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                     Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize Federal agencies to establish prize competitions for 
   innovation or adaptation management development relating to ocean 
                             acidification.

    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 ``Ocean Acidification Innovation Act 
of 2014''.

SEC. 2. HEADING.

    Section 12404 of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and 
Monitoring Act of 2009 (33 U.S.C. 3703) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(d) Prize Competitions.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any Federal agency with a representative 
        serving on the interagency working group established under this 
        section may, either individually or in cooperation with one or 
        more agencies, carry out a program to award prizes 
        competitively under section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
        Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719).
            ``(2) Purposes.--Any prize competition carried out under 
        this subsection shall be for the purpose of stimulating 
        innovation to advance our Nation's ability to understand, 
        research, or monitor ocean acidification or its impacts, or to 
        develop management or adaptation options for responding to 
        ocean acidification.
            ``(3) Priority programs.--Priority shall be given to 
        establish programs under this section that address communities, 
        environments, or industries that are in distress due to the 
        impacts of ocean acidification, including--
                    ``(A) the development of monitoring or management 
                options for communities or industries that are 
                experiencing significant financial hardship;
                    ``(B) the development of adaptation options to 
                alleviate economic harm and job loss caused by ocean 
                acidification;
                    ``(C) the development of measures to help 
                vulnerable communities or industries, with an emphasis 
                on rural communities and businesses; and
                    ``(D) the development of adaptation and management 
                options for impacted shellfish industries.''.
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