[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1967 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1967

   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

                             April 22, 2015

    Mr. Kilmer (for himself and Ms. Herrera Beutler) 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 2015''.

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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