The Act establishes a national policy and initiates a national 

 program for the management, beneficial use, protection, and 

 development of the Nation's coastal zones (generally, the submerged 

 lands and waters of the territorial sea and the adjacent shorelands 

 having a direct and significant impact on such waters). 



The Department of Commerce, charged with the administration of 

 the Act, will: 



(1) make planning grants and implementing grants of up to two- 

 thirds of the cost of creating and administering individual State 

 coastal zone management programs which meet the criteria of 

 the Act; 



(2) provide a continuing review of coastal State performance 

 under approved management programs and terminate financial 

 assistance upon an unjustified failure to adhere to the program; 



(3) carry out extensive consultation and coordination with all 

 Federal agencies on management programs prior to their 

 approval; 



(4) make Federal grants to States of up to 50 percent of the cost of 

 acquiring, developing, and operating estuarine sanctuaries; 



(5) report annually to Congress on activities under the Act, 

 including a statement as to Federal agency actions or projects 

 which are not consistent with approved management programs; 



(6) develop and promulgate rules and regulations to implement 

 the Act. 



Before the Secretary of Commerce can approve a coastal zone 

 program, he is required to obtain the concurrence of any Federal 

 agency administering a federally supported national land use policy 

 program over affected inland areas. Implicitly, NOAA has the 

 responsibility to assist the States by developing an adequate 

 environmental data base for each coastal state. 



Funds are authorized for fiscal year 1973 to assist the States in 

 establishing and administering coastal zone and estuarine 

 management programs. 



19. P.L. 92-590 (S. 3524) October 27, 1972. An Act to extend the 

 provisions of the Commercial Fisheries Research and 

 Development Act of 1964, as amended, (P.L. 88-309). 



The purpose of the legislation is to coordinate State-Federal 

 efforts in research and development for the conservation of the 

 commercial fishery resources of the Nation, as well as the 

 environment that supports them, by authorizing Federal assistance 

 for State programs meeting Federal approval. 



In accomplishing this purpose, the legislation would authorize to 



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