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[H.R. 4044 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4044

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
            National Estuary Program, 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 ``Protect and Restore America's 
Estuaries Act''.
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE.
    Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``and Peconic Bay, New 
York'' and inserting ``Peconic Bay, New York; Casco Bay, Maine; Tampa 
Bay, Florida; Coastal Bend, Texas; San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico; Tillamook 
Bay, Oregon; Piscataqua Region, New Hampshire; Barnegat Bay, New 
Jersey; Maryland Coastal Bays, Maryland; Charlotte Harbor, Florida; 
Mobile Bay, Alabama; Morro Bay, California; and Lower Columbia River, 
Oregon and Washington''.
SEC. 3. PURPOSES OF CONFERENCE.
    Section 320(b)(4) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(b)(4)) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``management plan that recommends'' and 
    inserting ``management plan that--
            ``(A) recommends''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) addresses the effects of recurring extreme weather 
        events on the estuary, including the identification and 
        assessment of vulnerabilities in the estuary and the 
        development and implementation of adaptation strategies; and
            ``(C) increases public education and awareness of the 
        ecological health and water quality conditions of the 
        estuary;''.
SEC. 4. MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE.
    Section 320(c)(5) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(c)(5)) is amended by inserting ``nonprofit organizations,'' 
after ``educational institutions,''.
SEC. 5. GRANTS.
    Section 320(g)(4)(C) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(g)(4)(C)) is amended--
        (1) in the matter preceding clause (i)--
            (A) by inserting ``, emerging,'' after ``urgent''; and
            (B) by striking ``coastal areas'' and inserting ``the 
        estuaries selected by the Administrator under subsection 
        (a)(2), or that relate to the coastal resiliency of such 
        estuaries'';
        (2) by redesignating clauses (vi) and (vii) as clauses (viii) 
    and (ix), respectively, and inserting after clause (v) the 
    following:
                ``(vi) stormwater runoff;
                ``(vii) accelerated land loss;''; and
        (3) in clause (viii), as so redesignated, by inserting ``, 
    extreme weather,'' after ``sea level rise''.
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
    Section 320(i)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(i)(1)) is amended by inserting ``, and $50,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2022 through 2026,'' after ``2021''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.