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Establishment of estuarine sanctuaries Avill provide information 

 valuable in itself, as well as information on which soimd coastal zone 

 management decisions can be based. 



Section Sill-. Interagency coordination and cooperation 



Subsection (a) provides that unless the views of Federal agencies 

 principally affected by a State's coastal zone management program 

 are adequately considered, the Secretary is not authorized to approve 

 that program. l^Hiere serious disagreement exists between a State and 

 a Federal agency in the development of the management program, the 

 Secretary is to seek to mediate the differences. Should such mediation 

 on the part of the Secretary not result in success, then the parties are 

 authorized to turn to the National Coastal Resources Board for further 

 solution of the problems. Once again final authority for decisions on 

 these matters rest in the purview of the Secretary and there is no in- 

 tent here to diminish that authority. 



Section 314(b)(1). This subsection requires all Federal agencies 

 conducting or supporting activities in the coastal zone to administer 

 their programs consistent with approved State management programs 

 except in cases of overriding national interest as determined by the 

 President. In order to determine whether Federal projects and activi- 

 ties are consistent with approved management programs, the subsec- 

 tion requires that program coverage procedures provided for and reg- 

 ulations issued under the Dem.onstration Cities and Metropolitan 

 Development Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-754, 80 Stat. 1255) and 

 Title IV of the Intercovernm-ental Cooperation Act of 1968 (Public 

 Law 90-577, 82 Stat. 1098) shall be applied. 



Paragra^ph (2) of subsection (b) provides that Federal agencies 

 shall not undertake any development project in the coastal zone which 

 in the opinion of the State is inconsistent witli the management pro- 

 gram of that State unless the Secretary receives comments from the 

 Federal aqencies, the coastal State, and the affected local governments, 

 and then finds that the project is consistent with the objectives of this 

 act. 



The committee does not intend to exempt Federal agencies auto- 

 matically from the provisions of this act. Inasmuch as Federal agen- 

 cies are given a full opportunity to participate in the planning process, 

 the committee deems it essential that Federal agencies administer their 

 proo-rams, including developmental projects, consistent with the 

 State's coastal zone manasfement program. If not, the ordinary course 

 for a State would be to file a complaint with the Secretary or, failing 

 that, with the National Coastal Resources Board. Again, however, 

 once the Secretary has received comments from the Federal agencies, 

 the State, and the affected local governments, he shall make his own 

 findino-s as to the consistency of the Federal developmental project 

 with the State's management program. 



Also, where the Secretary of Defense informs the Secretary that a 

 developmental project is necessary in the interest of national security, 

 the committee intends that the Secretary will make an independent 

 inquiry and finding as to the need for the project and its relationship 

 to the State management program. It is not sufficient, for the purposes 

 of this act, that the Secretary of Defense merely inform the Secretary 

 that the developmental project is needed in the interest of national 



