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"(d) 'Estuary' means that part of a river or stream or other body of water 

 having unimpaired connection with the open sea, where the sea water is meas- 

 urably diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage. The term includes 

 estuary-type areas of the Great Lakes. . , , _. 



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

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

 tuting 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 rela- 

 tionships within the area. 



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



"managemknt program development grants 



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

 coastal state for the purpose of assisting in 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 portions of the coastal 

 state subject to the management program ; 



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

 uses ; 



"(3) an inventory and designation of areas of particular concern; 

 "(4) an identification of the means by which the state proposes to exert 

 control over land and water uses, including a listing of relevant constitu- 

 tional 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 local, areawide, state, regional, and interstate agencies in the 

 management process. 

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

 in any one year. Federal funds received from other sources shall not be used to 

 match the grants. In order to qualify for grants under this subsection, the state 

 must reasonably demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such grams 

 will be used to develop a management program consistent with the requirements 

 set forth in section 3(]fe of this title. Successive grants may be made annually for 

 a period not to exceed two years : Provided, That no second grant shall be made 

 under this subsection unless the Secretary finds that the state is satisfactorily 

 developing such mangement program. 



"(d) Uion cf-.mpletiou of the development of the state's management program, 

 rhe state shall submit such program to the Secretary for review and approval 

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

 deems necessary. On final approval of such program by the Secretary, the state's 

 eligibility for further grants under this section shall terminate, and the state 

 shall be eligible for grants under section 306 of this title. 



"(e) Grants under this section shall be allocated to the states based on rules 

 and regulations promula:ated by the Secretary : Provided, however. That no man 

 agement program development grant under this section shall be made in excess 

 of 15 per centum of the total amount appropriated to carry out the purposes of 

 this section. 



"'f) Grants or portions thereof not obligated by a state during the fiscal year 

 for which they were first authorized to l)e obligated by the state, or during the 

 fiscal year immediately following, shall revert to the Secretary, and shall be 

 added by him to the funds available for grants under this section. 



"(g) With the approval of the Secretary, the state may allocate to a local gov- 

 ernment, to an areawide agency designated under section 204 of the Demonstra- 

 tion <'ities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1066, to a regional agency, or to 

 an interstate agency, a portion of the grant under this section, for the purpose of 

 carrying out the provisions of this .section. 



"(h) The authority to make grants under this section shall expire on June 30, 

 1975. 



"administrative grants 



"Sec. 306. (a) Tlie Secretary is authorized to make annual grants to any 

 coastal state for not more than 66% per centum of the costs of administering the 

 state's management prf)gram, if he approves such program in accordance with 



