The purpose of this chapter is to legislatively authorize the Coastal Program of the Service in effect as of December 11, 2024, to conduct collaborative landscape-level planning and on-the-ground coastal habitat assessment, coastal habitat protection, coastal habitat restoration, and coastal habitat enhancement projects in priority coastal landscapes to conserve and recover Federal trust species.

(Pub. L. 118–138, § 2, Dec. 11, 2024, 138 Stat. 1651.)

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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Pub. L. 118–138, § 1, Dec. 11, 2024, 138 Stat. 1651, provided that:

“This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023’.”