16 USC § 6456 - Definitions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s6456"
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title: "16 USC § 6456 - Definitions"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "6456"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 83
chapter_name: "CORAL REEF CONSERVATION, MANAGEMENT, AND ASSISTANCE"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "UNITED STATES CORAL REEF TASK FORCE"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title C, § 10016, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3954.)"
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# § 6456. Definitions

In this subchapter:

**(1)** **Appropriate congressional committees** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

**(A)** the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;

**(B)** the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;

**(C)** the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and

**(D)** the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.

**(2)** **Conservation, coral, coral reef, etc.** section 6415 of this title

The terms “conservation”, “coral”, “coral reef”, “coral reef ecosystem”, “covered reef manager”, “covered State”, “Federal reef manager”, “National Coral Reef Resilience Strategy”, “restoration”, “resilience”, and “State” have the meanings given those terms in , as added by this division.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title C, § 10016, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3954.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This division, referred to in par. (2), is div. J of , , . For complete classification of div. J to the Code, see Tables.