Ex-Assemblyman Steelers
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2016, 04:10:18 PM » |
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« Edited: February 17, 2016, 06:36:24 PM by Assemblyman Steelers »
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Gulf of Mexico Restoration and Protection Act
1. The Gulf of Mexico is a valuable resource of national and international importance, continuously serving the people of the Atlasia and other countries as an important source of food, economic productivity, recreation, beauty, and enjoyment;
2. over many years, the resource productivity and water quality of the Gulf of Mexico and its watershed have been diminished by point and nonpoint source pollution;
3. the Atlasia should seek to attain the protection and restoration of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem as a collaborative regional goal of the Gulf of Mexico Program;
The purposes of this Act are
1. to expand and strengthen cooperative voluntary efforts to restore and protect the Gulf of Mexico;
2. to expand Federal support for monitoring, management, and restoration activities in the Gulf of Mexico and its watershed;
3. to commit the Atlasia to a comprehensive cooperative program to achieve improved water quality in, and improvements in the productivity of living resources of, the Gulf of Mexico; and
4. to establish a Gulf of Mexico Program to serve as a national and international model for the collaborative management of large marine ecosystems.
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