; and (2) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting public before access . 7. John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program and Rapid Response Fund (a) In general Section 408 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C. 1421f–1 ) is amended to read as follows: 408. John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program and Rapid Response Fund (a) Definition of emergency assistance (1) In general In this section, the term emergency assistance means— (A) financial assistance provided to respond to, or that results from, a stranding event or entanglement event that— (i) causes an immediate increase in the cost of a response, recovery, or rehabilitation that is greater than the usual cost of a response, recovery, or rehabilitation; (ii) is cyclical or endemic; and (iii) involves a marine mammal that is out of the normal range for that marine mammal; or (B) financial assistance provided to respond to, or that results from, a stranding event or an entanglement event that the Secretary considers to be an emergency. (2) Exclusions The term emergency assistance does not include financial assistance to respond to an unusual mortality event. (b) John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program (1) In general Subject to the availability of appropriations or other funding, the Secretary shall carry out a grant program, to be known as the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program (referred to in this section as the grant program ), to award grants to eligible stranding network participants or stranding network collaborators, as described in this subsection. (2) Purposes The purposes of the grant program are to provide for— (A) the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled marine mammals; (B) responses to marine mammal stranding events that require emergency assistance