[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 133 (Saturday, August 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5279. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5194 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill H.R. 5376, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Strike section 40001 and insert the following:

     SEC. 40001. INVESTING IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES AND CLIMATE 
                   RESILIENCE.

       (a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
     available, there is appropriated to the National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 2022, out of any 
     money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
     $2,100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 
     to provide funding through direct expenditure, contracts, 
     grants, cooperative agreements, or technical assistance to 
     coastal states (as defined in paragraph (4) of section 304 of 
     the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453(4))), 
     the District of Columbia, Tribal Governments, nonprofit 
     organizations, local governments, and institutions of higher 
     education (as defined in subsection (a) of section 101 of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), for the 
     conservation, restoration, and protection of coastal and 
     marine habitats, resources, Pacific salmon, and other marine 
     fisheries, to enable coastal communities to prepare for 
     extreme storms and other changing climate conditions, and for 
     projects that support natural resources that sustain coastal 
     and marine resource dependent communities, marine fishery and 
     marine mammal stock assessments, and for related 
     administrative expenses.
       (b) Tribal Government Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``Tribal Government'' means the recognized governing body of 
     any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, 
     village, community, component band, or component reservation, 
     individually identified (including parenthetically) in the 
     list published most recently as of the date of enactment of 
     this subsection pursuant to section 104 of the Federally 
     Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131).
       (c) Improving Coast Guard Housing, Medical, and Child Care 
     Facilities.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, 
     there is appropriated to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 
     2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
     appropriated, $500,000,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2026, for the improvement of Coast Guard 
     operations through the procurement, construction, 
     improvement, or repair of Coast Guard housing, medical 
     facilities, and child care facilities, including procurement, 
     construction, improvement, or repair to improve the 
     resilience of such facilities with respect to extreme storms 
     and other changing climate conditions.
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