1. Short title This Act may be cited as the American Seabed Protection Act . 2. Prohibition of certain mining activities on deep seabed and Outer Continental Shelf (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) As determined by the United Nations, most recently in its Sustainable Development Goals report, our world’s oceans are at great risk from a number of factors, including atmospheric change, resource extraction, and pollution. (2) The United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched by the 2015 UN Summit in New York established Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDS 14), to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources. Target 2 of SDS 14 commits States to sustainably manage marine ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts and strengthen their resilience. (3) The international marine scientific and policy consensus is that deep seabed mining presents a major risk to the marine environment, including— (A) the direct loss of unique and ecologically important species; (B) large sediment plumes that will negatively affect ecosystems well beyond the actual mining sites; (C) noise pollution that will cause physiological and behavioral stress to marine species; (D) likely contamination of commercially important species of food fish