The Sea Grant research projects selected for the state support under this chapter shall have a clearly defined benefit to the people of the State of California. Those projects, to be conducted by universities, colleges, or other institutions participating in the California Sea Grant College Program, shall be applicable to marine and coastal resources management, policy, science, and engineering issues that face this state now or in the reasonably foreseeable future.

(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 293, Sec. 5. Effective August 18, 1997.)