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MANAGEMENT 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 TYiaangenient program for the land and icater resources of its coastal 

 zor^e. 



(b) Snch management progra'nx shall include: 



(1) an ide7itification 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 con- 

 cern; 



{4) an identification of the means by which the state proposes 

 to exert control over land and water uses, including a listing of 

 relevant and constitutional provisions., legislative eruictments., reg- 

 ulations., and judicial decisio'ns; 



{5) broad guidelines on priority of uses in particular areas., 

 including specifically those uses of lowest j^riority ; 



(6) a description of the organizational structure proposed to 



implement the management program., including the respotisibili- 



ties and intei'relationships of local., area.wide., state., regional., and 



interstate agencies in the management process. 



((?) The grants shall not exceed 66% per centwm 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 inust reasonably demonstrate to the 



satisfaction of the Secretary that such grants loill be used, to develop 



a management program consistent with the requirements set forth in 



section 306 of this title. Successive grants may be made annually for a 



period not to exceed tioo years : Provided, That no second grant shall 



be maduc under this subsection unless the Secretary -finds that the state 



is satisfactorily developing such management program. 



(d) Upon completion of the development of the staters managanent 

 pi^ogram, the state shall submit such program to the Secretary for re- 

 view and approval pursuant to the proyuisions of section 300 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, aiul 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 rides and regulations promulgated by the Secretary : Provided, 

 however. That no management program developmeid grant under this 

 section shall be made in excess of IS per centum of the total amount 

 appropriated to carry out the purposes of this section. 



(/) Grants or vortions thereof not obligated by a state during the 

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

 state, or during the fiscal year immediately following, shall revert to 

 the Secretary, and sludl be added by him to the funds availahle for 

 grants under this section. 



ig) With the approval of the Secretary, the State may allocate to 

 a local government, to an areawide agency dexigiuded, under section. 

 WJ^ of the Demonstraiion Cities and Metropolitan Decelopment Act 



