This bill authorizes the Department of Commerce to award competitive grants to Indian tribes to further achievement of tribal coastal zone objectives.
Specifically, these tribal coastal zone objectives include
- protecting, restoring, or preserving areas in the zone that hold important ecological, cultural, or sacred significance for the tribes or traditional, historic, and aesthetic values essential to the tribes;
- preparing and implementing a special area management plan and technical planning for important coastal areas; and
- implementing any coastal or shoreline stabilization measure for the purpose of public safety, public access, or cultural or historical preservation.