This part rebuilds the list of word meanings in the sea trash law. It takes one meaning out and gives the rest new numbers. It adds new terms, some with their meaning set out here and some pointing to other laws. It also moves one meaning across from the other law.
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“(1) by striking paragraph (1); (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (11), (12), and (13), respectively;”
The definitions section of the Marine Debris Act, which section 4 of this Act moves and renumbers as section 131, is restructured. Paragraph (1) is struck and the six paragraphs that follow it become paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (11), (12) and (13). The numbers left free are the ones the definitions below are inserted at.
What the document actually says
“(1) by striking paragraph (1); (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (11), (12), and (13), respectively;”
That sentence, in plain words
One meaning is taken out of the list. Six more get new numbers.
What this is about
The list of meanings is being rebuilt. The new numbers leave gaps. New terms go into the gaps.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“``(1) Circular economy.--The term `circular economy' has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224).”
Six terms recorded together here state no meaning of their own. Circular economy, EPA Administrator, nonprofit organization, post-consumer materials management and Under Secretary take the meanings they carry in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224). Tribal organization takes the meaning it carries in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). The paragraph quoted is the first of them. Indian Tribe is defined the same way and is recorded on its own below. Neither statute is indexed here, so what the terms mean is not recorded.
What the document actually says
“``(1) Circular economy.--The term `circular economy' has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224).”
That sentence, in plain words
One new term is circular economy. This law does not say what it means. It points to a different law.
What this is about
Five more terms work the same way. Each points to another law. Those laws are not on this site, so the site does not say what the terms cover.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“``(2) Coastal shoreline community.--The term `coastal shoreline community' means a city or county directly adjacent to the open ocean, major estuaries, or the Great Lakes.”
One of two terms this section defines outright. A coastal shoreline community is a city or county directly adjacent to the open ocean, major estuaries or the Great Lakes. Section 3 of this Act uses the term: the Foundation's principal office may be placed in one.
What the document actually says
“``(2) Coastal shoreline community.--The term `coastal shoreline community' means a city or county directly adjacent to the open ocean, major estuaries, or the Great Lakes.”
That sentence, in plain words
A coastal shoreline community means a city or county right next to the sea. It can also be next to a big river mouth. It can also be next to the Great Lakes.
What this is about
This term is new to the old law. Part 3 of this law uses it. The Foundation can put its home base in such a place.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“``(4) Indian tribe.--The term `Indian Tribe' has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).”
Indian Tribe takes the meaning it carries in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304), a statute that is not indexed here. Section 3 of this Act adds the term to the Foundation's purposes and to the list of bodies named in the authorization, and subsection (a)(6) below adds it to a list in paragraph (13).
What the document actually says
“``(4) Indian tribe.--The term `Indian Tribe' has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).”
That sentence, in plain words
The term Indian Tribe is used in this law. Its meaning comes from a different law. That law is named here.
What this is about
This law does not print the other law's words. So the site does not say what the term covers. A reader has to look it up.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“``(14) Tribal government.--The term `Tribal Government' means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the date of the enactment of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131).”
The second term this section defines outright. A Tribal Government is the recognized governing body of an Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band or component reservation that is individually identified in the list published most recently, as of the date this Act was enacted, under section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131). The list itself is not indexed here.
What the document actually says
“``(14) Tribal government.--The term `Tribal Government' means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the date of the enactment of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131).”
That sentence, in plain words
A Tribal Government means the body that runs a Tribe. The Tribe has to be named on a list. The list is the one that was out when this law passed.
What this is about
The list comes from a 1994 law. It names Tribes one by one. This law does not print the list.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“in paragraph (13), as so redesignated-- (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) as subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E); and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: ``(B) Indian Tribe;''.”
Indian Tribe is inserted as a new subparagraph (B) in paragraph (13) of section 131, the paragraph renumbered here from paragraph (7), and the subparagraphs that were (B), (C) and (D) become (C), (D) and (E). What that paragraph is a list of is in the amended statute, which is not indexed here.
What the document actually says
“in paragraph (13), as so redesignated-- (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) as subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E); and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: ``(B) Indian Tribe;''.”
That sentence, in plain words
Two words go into a list: Indian Tribe. Three items below it each move down a letter.
What this is about
The list sits in the old law. This law does not print it. So the site does not say what the list is for.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“(1) In general.--Section 2(7) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224) is transferred to section 131 of the Marine Debris Act (Public Law 109-449), inserted after paragraph (7) (as redesignated), and redesignated as paragraph (8).”
One definition, paragraph (7) of section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, is moved into the Marine Debris Act's definitions and becomes paragraph (8). Paragraphs (8) through (11) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act then become paragraphs (7) through (10). The term the moved paragraph defines is not set out in this Act; the heading of the next subsection calls it non-Federal funds.
What the document actually says
“(1) In general.--Section 2(7) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224) is transferred to section 131 of the Marine Debris Act (Public Law 109-449), inserted after paragraph (7) (as redesignated), and redesignated as paragraph (8).”
That sentence, in plain words
One meaning moves from one law to the other. It gets a new number there: (8). Four meanings left behind each move up a number.
What this is about
The rule after this one works on that same meaning. Its heading calls it non-Federal funds. The words of the meaning are not printed here.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“Paragraph (8)(D) of section 131 of the Marine Debris Act (Public Law 109-449), as transferred and redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking ``(as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304))''.”
The parenthetical cross reference in paragraph (8)(D) of section 131, the definition moved by the subsection above, is struck. The provision it pointed to, section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304), is the same one this section attaches at the head of the definitions to the terms Indian Tribe and Tribal organization.
What the document actually says
“Paragraph (8)(D) of section 131 of the Marine Debris Act (Public Law 109-449), as transferred and redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking ``(as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304))''.”
That sentence, in plain words
A pointer inside one line is taken out. It pointed to a part of another law.
What this is about
The same pointer now sits higher up in the list. Two terms up there use it. So it did not need to be in both places.
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Each thing the section does: the striking and renumbering that clears room in the definitions, the terms defined by pointing to another statute, the two terms defined outright here, the addition of Indian Tribe to a list in paragraph (13), the transfer of one definition from the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act and the renumbering that follows it there, and the striking of a parenthetical cross reference in paragraph (8)(D).
Seven of the nine terms this section inserts are defined by pointing to another statute. Six of them are recorded in one entry rather than one entry each; the seventh, Indian Tribe, is recorded on its own because other provisions of this Act turn on it. What any of those terms means is not recorded, because the statutes that define them are not indexed here.
The section amends the definitions of the Marine Debris Act (Public Law 109-449) at the number section 4 of this Act gives them, and draws meanings from the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 116-224) and the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). None of those is indexed here. The list published under section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131) is cited and not indexed.
