33 U.S.C. § 1122 — Definitions

As used in this subchapter—(1) “Administration” means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2) “Director” means the Director of the national sea grant college program appointed under section 1123(b) of this title. (3) “Director of a sea grant college” means a person designated by the institution to direct a sea grant college or institute. (4) “Field related to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources” means any discipline or field, including marine affairs, resource management, technology, education, or science, concerned with or likely to improve understanding, assessment, development, management, use, or conservation of those resources. (5) “Institution” means a public or private higher-education institution, institute, laboratory, or State or local agency. (6) “Includes” and its variations mean “including, but not limited to.” (7) “Ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources” means resources located in, derived from, or traceable to the seabed, subsoil, and waters of the coastal zone, the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain to the extent its resources have similar or related hydrological, biological, physical, or geological characteristics and problems, the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, the Outer Continental Shelf, and the high seas. (8) “Resource” means living resources, including natural and cultured plant life, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and wildlife; nonliving resources, including energy sources, minerals, and chemical substances; habitat, coastal space, ecosystems, nutrient-rich areas, and other marine-environment components that provide or could provide recreational, scenic, aesthetic, biological, habitat, commercial, economic, or conservation value; and man-made, tangible or intangible, actual or potential resources. (9) “Board” means the National Sea Grant Advisory Board established under section 1128. (10) “Person” means an individual; public or private corporation, partnership, association, or other entity, including a sea grant college, institute, or other institution; or a State, its political subdivision, or its agency or officer. (11) “Project” means an individually described research, education, training, or extension-service activity in a related field, administered by a person with expertise in that field. (12) “Sea grant college” means an institution, or an association or alliance of two or more institutions, designated by the Secretary under section 1126. (13) “Sea grant institute” has the same structure and designation rule under section 1126. (14) “Sea grant program” means a research and outreach program administered by one or more sea grant colleges or institutes. (15) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Commerce acting through the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. (16) “State” means a United States State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, or another United States territory or possession.