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■"(e) 'Estuary sanctuary' means a research area which may include any part 

 ■or all of an estuary, adjoining transitional areas and adjacent uplands, constitut- 

 ing to the extent feasible a natural unit, set aside to provide scientists and 

 students the opportunity to examine over a period of time the ecological relation- 

 ships within the area. 



"(f) 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Commerce. 



"(g) 'Management program' means a comprehensive statement in words, maps, 

 illustrations, or other media of communication, prepared and adopted by the 

 coastal State in accordance with the provisions of this title, setting forth objec- 

 tives, policies, and standards to guide public and private uses of lands and waters 

 in the coastal zone so as to minimize direct, significant, and adverse impact on 

 the coastal waters, and governmental structure capable of implementing such 

 program. 



"management progbam development grants 



"Sec. 305. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make annual grants to any 

 coastal State for the purpose of assisting the development of a management 

 program for the land and water resources of its coastal zone. 

 "(b) Such management program shall include : 



"(1) an identification of the boundaries of the coastal zone of the portions 

 of the coastal State subject to the management program ; 



"(2) a definition of what shall constitute permissible land and water uses 

 within the coastal zone so as to prevent such uses which have a direct, sig- 

 nificant, and adverse impact on the coastal waters ; 



'•(3) an inventory and designation of areas of particular concern within 

 the coastal zone ; 



"(4) an identification of the means by which the coastal State proposes to 

 •exert control over land and water uses, within the coastal zone so as to pre- 

 vent such uses which have a direct, significant, and adverse impact on the 

 coastal waters ; including a listing of relevant constitutional provisions, 

 legislative enactments, regulations, and judicial decisions ; 



"(5) broad guidelines on priority of uses in particular areas, including 

 specifically those uses of lowest priority ; 



"(6) a description of the organizational structure proposed to implement 

 the management program, including the responsibilities and interrelation- 

 ships of areawide coastal State, and regional agencies in the management 

 process. 

 "(c) The grants shall not exceed 66% per centum of the costs of the program in 

 any one year and no State shall be eligible to receive more that three annual 

 grants pursuant to this section. Federal funds received from other sources ;shall 

 not be used to match such grants. In order to qualify for grants under this sec- 

 tion, the coastal State must reasonably demonstrate to the satisfaction of the 

 Secretary that such grants will be used to develop a management program con- 

 sistent with the requirements set forth in section 306 of this title. After making 

 the initial annual grant to a coastal State, no subsequent grant shall be made 

 under this section unless the Secretary finds that the coastal State is satisfactorily 

 developing such management program. 



"(d) Upon completion of the development of the State's management program, 

 "the coastal State shall submit such program to the Secretary for review, approval 

 pursuant to the provisions of section 306 of this title, or such other action as he 

 deems necessary. On final approval of such planned program by the Secretary, the 

 coastal State's eligibility for further grants under this section shall terminate, 

 and the coastal State shall be eligible for grants under section 306 of this title. 



"(e) Grants under this section shall be allotted to the coastal States based on 

 rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary : Provided, however, That no 

 management program development grant under this section shall be made in 

 excess of 10 per centum nor less than 1 per centum of the total amount appro- 

 priated to carry out the purposes of this section. 



"(f) Grants or portions thereof not obligated by a coastal State during the 

 fiscal year for which they were first authorized to be obligated by the coastal 

 State, or during the fiscal year immediately following, shall revert to the Secre- 

 tary, and shall be added by him to the funds available for grants under this 

 section. 



"(g) With the approval of the Secretary the coastal State may allocate to a 

 local government, to an areawide agency designated under section 204 of the 

 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 or to an 



