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DAM-L USA: CONGRESS PASSES ESTUARIES RESTORATION ACT
From: "Jim Chambers" <j.chambers@erols.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca;>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:17:47 -0500
CONGRESS PASSES ESTUARIES RESTORATION ACT:=20
On 25 October, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to revitalize
coastal communities and restore essential coastal habitat important for
fisheries. The Estuaries & Clean Water Act of 2000 (now a combination
of several related bills) was sponsored by the late Senator John Chafee
(R-RI) and Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) and had broad
support among the west coast delegation. The legislation provides a
federal commitment and resources to restore one million acres of habitat
in America's estuaries: the bays, sounds, gulfs, harbors, lagoons, =
inlets and deltas where fresh water mixes with the salt water of the ocean.
These areas are the nurseries for most of the nation's fisheries. The
legislation authorizes $275 million over five years for matching funds =
for local restoration projects. Since European settlement, the United States
has lost more than six million acres of critical coastal wetlands =
habitat..
Estuaries and wetlands are essential to the vitality of the nation's =
fishing economy. For the importance of wetlands to the fishing industry see
"Fisheries, Wetlands and Jobs" at:
http://www.pond.net/~pcffa/wetlands.htm=20
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