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tively tlieiT responsibilities in the coastal zone through the develop- 

 ment and iniplementation of management programs to achieve the 

 use of the Iwiid and loater resources of the coastal zone giving full 

 co7isideration to ecological^ cultural^ historic, and esthetic values as 

 well as to needs for econoonic development, {c) for all Federal agencies 

 engaged in programs affecting the coastal zone to cooperate and par- 

 ticipate with state and local governments and regional agencies in 

 effectuating the purposes of this title, and (d) to encourage the par- 

 ticipation of the public, of Federal, state, and local governments and 

 of regional agencies in tlie development of coastal zo-ne 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 estdbUshm^nt of inter- 

 state and regional agreements, cooperative procedures, and joi7it action 

 particularly regarding environinental problems. 



DEFINITIONS 



Sec. 304: For the purposes of this title — 



{a) '■'•Coastal zone""' means the coastal waters {including tJie lands 

 therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands {including the 

 waters therein and thereunder) , strongly influenced by each other and 

 in proximity to the shorelines of the several coastal states, and includes 

 transitional aoid intertidal areas, sale marshes, wetlands, and, beaches. 

 The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international bound- 

 ary between the United States and Canada and, in other areas, seaioard 

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

 inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control 

 shorelands, the uses of luhich have a direct and significant impa.ct on 

 the coastal waters. Excluded from the coastal zone are lands the use 

 of which is by law subject solely to the discretion of or which is held in 

 trust by the Federal Government, its officers or agents. 



(b) '-'•Coastal xoaters'''' means (i) in the Great Lakes area, the waters 

 tvithin the territorial jurisdiction of the United States consisting of 

 the Great Lakes, their connecting waters, harbors, roadsteads, and 

 estuary-type areas such as bays, shaJloios, and marshes a'rid (2) in other 

 areas, those waters, adjacent to the shorelines, which contain a, meas- 

 ureable quantity or percentage of sea, boater, including, but not limited 

 to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, pands, and estuaries. 



(c) ^'■Coastal state'''' means a state of the United States in, or bor- 

 dering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, 

 Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes. For the^ p'ur- 

 poses of this title, the term also includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is- 

 lands, Guam, and American Samoa. 



(d) '•'■Estuary'''' means that part of a river or stream or other body 

 of loater having unimpared connection with the open sea, wliere the 

 sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from, land 

 drainage. The term, includes estuary-type areas of the Great Lakes. 



(e) '■'•Estuai-itie sanctuar^f means a research area wh'ich may include 

 any part or all of estuary, adjoining transitional areas, and adja- 

 cent uplands, constituti7ig to the extent feasible a natural unit, set aside 



