port facilities to accommodate the LNG tankships. The new legislation 

 re-establishing the California Coastal Commission limits the number of 

 LNG facilities on the coast to one until the Commission finds that the 

 associated safety problems have been solved. 



Procedures for coastal plan implementation are contained in legis- 

 lation signed by the Governor on September 29, 1976, re-establishing 

 the Commission. A master plan for ports and harbors, and a joint State 

 Coastal Commission-local government permit system is described in the 

 new legislation. Regional plans for siting OCS-related facilities 

 will be developed when scenarios of possible production from OCS lands 

 are completed by the OCS Task Force at a later date. 



It is important to note that the legislation signed by the Governor 

 does not explicitly mention the California Coastal Plan as the designated 

 plan for the coastline. Coastal Commission staff emphasize that the 

 adopted Coastal Plan is advisory only and will be used by the State 

 Coastal Commission as a guideline in their evaluation of local govern- 

 ment planning for the coast. Under the legislation, the State Commission 

 may reject local plans that, in the findings of the Commission, do not 

 match the plans of the State Commission's staff. The operation of the 

 procedures listed in the legislation are still unclear however and will 

 undergo a political and legal shakedown process in the coming months. 

 The scenarios and regional and subregional plans developed by the OCS 

 Task Force in cooperation with staffs from the State Commission and 

 local governments also have no legal validity and must be adopted by 

 the policy bodies of the cities and counties along the coast and then 



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