[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR918.2]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 918_SEA GRANTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 918.2  Definitions.



    (a) Marine environment. The term Marine Environment means any or all 

of the following: the coastal zone, as defined in section 304(1) of the 

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453(1)); the seabed, 

subsoil and waters of the territorial sea of the United States, 

including the Great Lakes; the waters of any zone over which the United 

States asserts exclusive fishery management authority; the waters of the 

high seas; and the seabed and subsoil of and beyond the Outer 

Continental Shelf.

    (b) Ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal resources. The term ocean, Great 

Lakes, and coastal resources means any resource (whether living, 

nonliving, manmade, tangible, intangible, actual, or potential) which is 

located in, derived from, or traceable to, the marine environment. Such 

term includes the habitat of any such living resource, the coastal 

space, the ecosystems, the nutrient-rich areas, and the other components 

of the marine environment which contribute to or provide (or which are 

capable of contributing to or providing) recreational, scenic, 

aesthetic, biological, habitational, commercial, economic, or 

conservation values. Living resources include natural and cultured plant 

life, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and wildlife. Nonliving resources 

include energy sources, minerals, and chemical substances.

    (c) Person. The term Person means any public or private corporation, 

partnership, or other association or entity (including any Sea Grant 

College, Sea Grant Regional Consortium, institution of higher education, 

institute, or laboratory); or any State, political subdivision of a 

State, or agency or officer thereof.

    (d) Sea Grant College. The term Sea Grant College means any public 

or private institution of higher education or confederation of such 

institutions which is designated as such by the Secretary under section 

207 of the National Sea Grant Program Act. Included in this term are all 

campuses (or other administrative entities) of a designated Sea Grant 

College, working through the established management structure of the Sea 

Grant College.

    (e) Sea Grant Program. The term Sea Grant Program means any program 

which:

    (1) Is administered by a Sea Grant College, Sea Grant Regional 

Consortium, institution of higher education, institute, laboratory, or 

State or local agency; and

    (2) Includes two or more Sea Grant projects involving one or more of 

the following activities in fields related to ocean, Great Lakes, and 

coastal resources:

    (i) Research,

    (ii) Education and training, and

    (iii) Advisory services.

    (f) Sea Grant project. A Sea Grant project is any separately 

described activity which has been proposed to the National Sea Grant 

College Program, and has subsequently been approved.

    (g) Sea Grant Regional Consortium. The term Sea Grant Regional 

Consortium means any association or other alliance of two or more 

persons as defined above (other than individuals) established for the 

purpose of pursuing programs in marine research education,



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training, and advisory services on a regional basis (i.e., beyond the 

boundaries of a single state) and which is designated as a consortium by 

the Secretary under section 207 of the National Sea Grant Program Act.

    (h) Field related to Ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal resources. The 

term field related to Ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal resources means 

any discipline or field (including marine sciences and the physical, 

natural, and biological sciences, and engineering, included therein, 

marine technology, education, economics, sociology, communications, 

planning law, international affairs, public administration, humanities, 

and the arts) which is concerned with, or likely to improve the 

understanding, assessment, development, utilization, or conservation of, 

ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal resources.