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The bill modernizes and clarifies authorization and timing for coastal program funding—potentially improving predictability—but risks lower funding levels and short‑term timing uncertainty that could reduce or delay coastal projects and services.
State and local coastal agencies and NOAA programs get a clarified, multi‑year authorization that can improve predictability and potentially increase program funding for coastal projects and services.
Removing outdated enactment‑timing language reduces administrative confusion about when funds are available, simplifying grant administration and fund obligational timing for state and local recipients.
If the new authorization level is lower than the prior $2 million per year baseline, NOAA coastal programs and related state/local projects could face funding cuts, reducing services, research, or project scope.
Altering statutory timing language could create short‑term uncertainty about when funds may be obligated, potentially delaying project starts, grant awards, or contract actions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Replaces the existing $2,000,000-per-year FY2022–2026 authorization in 33 U.S.C. §1144(a) with new authorization language, altering the statute's funding authorization.
Replaces the existing funding authorization in 33 U.S.C. §1144(a) that previously authorized $2,000,000 per year for FY2022–2026 with new authorization text (not included in the provided snippet). It also establishes a short title for the Act. The substantive effect is to change the statute’s authorization language for the program or fund governed by 33 U.S.C. §1144; the exact new funding amounts, timing, and terms cannot be determined from the excerpt supplied.
Introduced June 3, 2025 by Seth Moulton · Last progress March 4, 2026