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subsections (c) and (d) as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of 

 this section. 



"(2) A coastal State receiving a grant under the provisions of subsections 

 (c) and (d) of this section, the agency designated by the Governor to administer 

 sucli grant, and an interstate agency allocated a portion of a grant under the 

 pi-ovisions of subsection (d) shall make reports and evalutions in such form, 

 at such times, and containing such information concerning the status and applica- 

 tion of Federal funds and the operation of the approved management program 

 as the Secretary may require, and shall keep and make available such records 

 as may be required by the Secretary for the verification of such reports and 

 evaluations. 



"(3) The Secretary, the head of another Federal agency concerned, and the 

 Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized rep- 

 resentatives, shall have access, for the purpose of audit and examination, to any 

 books, documents, papers, and records of a grant recipient that are pertinent to 

 the grant received under the provisions of subsections (c) and (d) of this sec- 

 tion. 



"(j) Appropriations. — 



" (1) There are authorized to be appropriated : 



"(A) the sum of $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1971 and such sums as may be 

 necessary for the fiscal years thereafter prior to June 30, 1975, for grants 

 under subsection (c) of this section ; and 



"(B) such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1972, and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter for grants under sub- 

 section (d) of this section. 

 "(2) There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be neces- 

 sary for the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this section." 



[H.R. 15099, 91st Cong., 1st sess.] 



A BILL To assist the States In establishing coastal zone management programs 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for 

 a comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated national program in marine 

 science, to establish a National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering 

 Development, and a Commission on Marine Science, Engineering Resources, and 

 for other purposes, approved October 15, 1966, amended (16 U.S.C. 1121 et 

 seq. ) , is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new titles : 



"TITLE III— MULTIPLE USE OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"SHOET TITLE 



"Sec. 301. This title may be cited as the 'Coastal Zone Management Act of 1969'. 



"statement of policy 



"Sec. 302. The Congress finds and declares that the coastal zone of the United 

 States is rich in a variety of natural, commercial, industrial, recreational, and 

 esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to the present and future 

 development of our Nation ; that unplanned or poorly planned development of 

 these resources has destroyed, or has the potential of destroying, the basic natural 

 environmental of such areas and has restricted the most eflficient and beneficial 

 utilization of such areas ; that it is the policy of Congress to preserve, protect, 

 develop, and where possible to restore, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone 

 for this and succeeding generations through comprehensive and coordinated 

 long-range planning and management designed to produce the maximum benefit 

 for society from such coastal areas. 



"definitions 



"Sec. 303. For the purposes of this title — 



"(a) The term 'coastal zone' means lands, bays, estuaries, and waters within 

 the territorial sea or the seaward boundary, which ever is the farther offshore, of 

 the various coastal States and States bordering the Great Lakes and extending 

 inland to the landward extent of maritime influences. 



