(a) Priority project and conservation planning expenditures
Of the total amount appropriated during a given fiscal year to
carry out this chapter, 70 percent shall be available, and shall
remain available until expended, for the purposes of making
expenditures -
(1) not to exceed the aggregate amount of $5,000,000 annually
to assist the Task Force in the preparation of the list required
under this chapter and the plan required under this chapter,
including preparation of -
(A) preliminary assessments;
(B) general or site-specific inventories;
(C) reconnaissance, engineering or other studies;
(D) preliminary design work; and
(E) such other studies as may be necessary to identify and
evaluate the feasibility of coastal wetland restoration
projects;
(2) to carry out coastal wetlands restoration projects in
accordance with the priorities set forth on the list prepared
under this chapter;
(3) to carry out wetlands restoration projects in accordance
with the priorities set forth in the restoration plan prepared
under this chapter;
(4) to make grants not to exceed $2,500,000 annually or
$10,000,000 in total, to assist the agency designated by the
State in development of the Coastal Wetlands Conservation Plan
pursuant to this chapter.
(b) Coastal wetlands conservation grants
Of the total amount appropriated during a given fiscal year to
carry out this chapter, 15 percent shall be available, and shall
remain available to the Director, for purposes of making grants -
(1) to any coastal State, except States eligible to receive
funding under subsection (a) of this section, to carry out
coastal wetlands conservation projects in accordance with section
3954 of this title; and
(2) in the amount of $2,500,000 in total for an assessment of
the status, condition, and trends of wetlands in the State of
Texas.
(c) North American wetlands conservation
Of the total amount appropriated during a given fiscal year to
carry out this chapter, 15 percent shall be available to, and shall
remain available until expended by, the Secretary of the Interior
for allocation to carry out wetlands conservation projects in
coastal wetlands ecosystems in any coastal State under section 4407
of this title.
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