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for economic development, (c) for all Federal agencies engaged in programs 

 affecting the coastal zone to cooperate and participate with state and local gov- 

 ernments and regional agencies in effectuating the purposes of this title, and (d) 

 to encourage the participation of the public, of Federal, state, and local govern- 

 ments and of regional agencies in the development of coastal zone management 

 programs. With respect to implementation of such management programs, it is 

 the national policy to encourage cooperation among the various state and regional 

 agencies including establishment of interstate and regional agreements, coopera- 

 tive procedures, and joint action particularly regarding environmental problems. 



"definitions 



"Sec. 304. For the purposes of this title — 



"(a) '(Coastal zone' means the coastal waters (including the lands therein and 

 thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands (including the waters therein and 

 thereunder), strongly influenced by each other and in proximity to tlie shorelines 

 of the several coastal states, and includes transitional and intertidal areas, salt 

 marshes, wetlands, and beaches. The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the 

 international boundary between the United States and Canada and, in other areas, 

 seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial sea. The zone extends 

 inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control those shore- 

 lands, the uses of which have a direct impact on the coastal waters. 



"(b) "Coastal waters' mean (1) in the Great Lakes area, the waters within the 

 territorial jurisdiction of the United States consisting of the Great Lakes, their 

 connecting waters, harbors, roadsteads, and estuary-type areas such as bays, 

 shallows, and marshes and (2) in other areas, those waters, adjacent to the 

 shorelines, which contain a measurable quantity or percentage of sea water, in- 

 cluding, but not limited to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, ponds, and estuaries. 



"(C) 'Coastal state' means a state of the United States in, or bordering on, 

 the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, 

 or one or more of the Great Lakes. For the purposes of this title, the term in- 

 cludes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. 



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

 having unimpaired connection \\'ith the open sea, where the sea water is meas- 

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

 estauary-type areas of the Great Lakes. 



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

 part or all of an estuary, adjoining transition 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 relation- 

 ships within the area. 



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



"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 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 propo.ses to exert con- 

 trol over land and water uses, including a listing of relevant constitutional pro- 

 visions, legislative enactments, regulations, and judicial decisions : 



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

 ically those uses of lowest priority : 



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

 management program, including the responsibilities and interrelationship of lo- 

 cal areawide state, regional, and interstate agencies in the management process. 



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

 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 the subsection, the state 

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

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



