Create a grant program and preservation loan fund to support waterfront-preservation efforts and establish a Working Waterfronts Task Force.

Chellie Pingree · Maine · Democratic

spending impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 98%

Occurrences

The Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act would create a grant program and preservation loan fund to provide funding options for waterfront-preservation efforts, as well as establish a Working Waterfronts Task Force…

Pingree reintroduced legislation to fund and coordinate efforts to preserve working waterfronts.

Supporting Maine Lobstermen | U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree
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Evidence

Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (Introduced 03/03/2025). Official title: To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish a working waterfronts Task Force and working waterfronts grant and loan programs, and for other purposes. Latest Action: 03/03/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. All actions list only introduction and referral.

Pingree introduced the bill matching the claim in the 119th Congress, but as of the bill record it had only been referred to committee and not enacted or advanced.

unresolved same_term A for effort

All Information (Except Text) for H.R.1808 - Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act of 2025 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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The bill text creates a 'Working Waterfronts Grant Program' and a 'working waterfronts preservation loan fund' and provides for a 'regionally equitable and competitive grant program' with preservation, acquisition, improvement, and climate-adaptation uses. It also defines the fund as 'a revolving loan fund established under this section for the preservation of working waterfronts.'

The introduced bill contains the grant program and preservation loan fund components of the claim, confirming delivery effort at the bill-text stage.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.1808 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act of 2025 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congressional Record history shows H.R. 1808 was introduced by Ms. Pingree on 3MR [March 3] 2025 and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. The history page lists cosponsors added later in March and April 2025, but no floor passage or further dispositive action.

The bill saw sponsorship and cosponsorship activity, but no legislative completion, so the claim remained unfulfilled in Congress as of the available record.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R.1808 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): History | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (Introduced 05/12/2021). The bill summary says NOAA must establish a Working Waterfront Task Force and a Working Waterfront Grant Program, and establishes the Working Waterfronts Preservation Loan Fund to provide loans to coastal states for working waterfront plans. Latest Action: 06/22/2021 Committee Hearings Held.

Earlier-term legislation shows Pingree pursuing the same policy design, but it did not become law and therefore does not satisfy the claim by itself.

never same_term A for effort

H.R.3160 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Assessments

unresolved same_term A for effort

Pingree sponsored H.R.1808 in the 119th Congress, and the bill text directly matches the promised Working Waterfronts Task Force, grant program, and preservation loan fund. However, the latest Congress.gov status as of July 2, 2026 remains only introduction and referral to the House Natural Resources Committee; it has not passed or become law, and the promised programs have not been created. Because the current federal term is still ongoing and the matching bill remains pending rather than definitively failed, the outcome is unresolved, with credit for a serious legislative effort.

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unresolved same_term A for effort

Pingree clearly made a serious effort by introducing legislation that directly matches the promise: it would create a Working Waterfronts Grant Program, a preservation loan fund, and a Working Waterfronts Task Force. She also pursued substantially similar legislation in an earlier Congress. But the available evidence shows the 2025 bill was only introduced and referred to committee, with no passage or enactment, and the earlier version also did not become law. Because the current term effort is ongoing and the outcome has not yet been completed, the promise is best scored as unresolved rather than delivered or partial.

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