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Subcommittee reviews Chesapeake Bay Waters Act to reauthorize NOAA bay office, buoy system and BWET program
Summary
Witnesses and state officials endorsed reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay office to stabilize monitoring, restoration and education programs, while the chair signaled the committee would examine proposed additions related to climate programming and management structure changes.
The subcommittee considered legislation to reauthorize and update NOAA's Chesapeake Bay office and related programs, including statutory authorization for the Chesapeake Bay interpretive buoy system and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET) grant program.
Representative Bobby Scott, a bill co-lead, described the Chesapeake Bay as the nation’s largest estuary and said the office's science, monitoring and restoration…
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