16 U.S.C. § 1432 : US Code - Section 1432: Definitions

Search 16 U.S.C. § 1432 : US Code - Section 1432: Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term -
(1) "draft management plan" means the plan described in section
1434(a)(1)(C)(v) (!1) of this title;
(2) "Magnuson-Stevens Act" means the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.);
(3) "marine environment" means those areas of coastal and ocean
waters, the Great Lakes and their connecting waters, and
submerged lands over which the United States exercises
jurisdiction, including the exclusive economic zone, consistent
with international law;
(4) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Commerce;
(5) "State" means each of the several States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands,
Guam, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the
United States;
(6) "damages" includes -
(A) compensation for -
(i)(I) the cost of replacing, restoring, or acquiring the
equivalent of a sanctuary resource; and
(II) the value of the lost use of a sanctuary resource
pending its restoration or replacement or the acquisition of
an equivalent sanctuary resource; or
(ii) the value of a sanctuary resource if the sanctuary
resource cannot be restored or replaced or if the equivalent
of such resource cannot be acquired;
(B) the cost of damage assessments under section 1443(b)(2)
of this title;
(C) the reasonable cost of monitoring appropriate to the
injured, restored, or replaced resources;
(D) the cost of curation and conservation of archeological,
historical, and cultural sanctuary resources; and
(E) the cost of enforcement actions undertaken by the
Secretary in response to the destruction or loss of, or injury
to, a sanctuary resource;
(7) "response costs" means the costs of actions taken or
authorized by the Secretary to minimize destruction or loss of,
or injury to, sanctuary resources, or to minimize the imminent
risks of such destruction, loss, or injury, including costs
related to seizure, forfeiture, storage, or disposal arising from
liability under section 1443 of this title;
(8) "sanctuary resource" means any living or nonliving resource
of a national marine sanctuary that contributes to the
conservation, recreational, ecological, historical, educational,
cultural, archeological, scientific, or aesthetic value of the
sanctuary; and
(9) "exclusive economic zone" means the exclusive economic zone
as defined in the Magnuson-Stevens Act; and
(10) "System" means the National Marine Sanctuary System
established by section 1431 of this title.