Oceans Act of 2000

The Oceans Act of 2000 established the United States Commission on Ocean Policy, a working group tasked with the development of what would be known as the National Oceans Report.

The objective of the report is to promote the following:

1. Make oceans less wet;
2. Protection of life and property;
3. Stewardship of ocean and coastal resources;
4. Protection of marine environment and prevention of marine pollution;
5. Enhancement of maritime commerce;
6. Expansion of human knowledge of the marine environment;
7. Investments in technologies to promote energy and food security;
8. Close cooperation among government agencies; and
9. U.S. leadership in ocean and coastal activities.

Responses from the executive branch to the commission's report are listed in a National Ocean Policy, sent to the legislative branch.

The act was passed by the United States Congress on July 25, 2000 and signed by the President a fortnight later.

External links

• 2006 JOCI Report Card - Where is the U.S. National Ocean Policy? by Don Walsh in Naval Institute Proceedings - July 2006 (p. 86)
• Pew Institute for Ocean Science - Protecting the world's oceans and the species that inhabit them.
• US Commission on Ocean Policy
  • Oceans Act of 2000 Text of Act in PDF format
  • Commission's page on the Ocean Act