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Notice. "(i) Such management agency is required, before imple- 



menting any management program decision which would 

 conflict with any local zoning ordinance, decision, or other 

 action, to send a notice of such management program decision 

 to any local government whose zoning authority is affected 

 thereby. 



" (ii) Any such notice shall provide that such local govern- 

 ment may, within the 30-day period commencing on the date 

 of receipt of such notice, submit to the management agency 

 written comments on such management program decision, and 

 any recommendation for alternatives thereto, if no action is 

 taken during such period which would conflict or interfere 

 with such management program decision, imless such local 

 government waives its right to comment. 



"(iii) Such management agency, if any such comments are 

 submitted to it, with such 30-day period, by any local 

 government — 



"(I) is required to consider any such comments, 

 "(II) is authorized, in its discretion, to hold a public 

 hearing on such comments, and 



"(III) may not take any action within such 30-day 

 period to implement the management program decision, 

 whether or not modified on the basis of such comments." ; 



(3) by amending subsection (c) (8) to read as follows — 



"(8) The management program provides for adequate consid- 

 eration of the national interest involved in planning for, and in 

 the siting of, facilities (including energy facilities in, or which 

 significantly affect, such state's coastal zone) which are necessary 

 to meet requirements which are other than local in nature. In the 

 case of such energy facilities, the Secretary shall find that the 

 state has given such consideration to any applicable interstate 

 energy plan or program." ; 



(4) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows: 



"(g) Any coastal state may amend or modify the management pro- 

 gram which it has submitted and which has been approved by the Sec- 

 retary under this section, pursuant to the required procedures described 

 in subsection (c). Except with respect to any such amendment which 

 is made befoie October 1, 1978, for the purpose of complying with the 

 Ante , p. 1015. requirements of paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) of section 305(b), no 

 grant shall be made under this section to any coastal state after the 

 date of such an amendment or modification, until the Secretary 

 approves such amendment or modification.". 



SEC. 6. CONSISTENCY AND MEDIATION. 



Section 307 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C 

 1456) is amended — 



(1) by striking out "interagency" in the title of such section; 



(2) by striking out the last sentence of subsection (b) ; 



( 3 ) by amending subsection ( c ) ( 3 ) by inserting " ( A ) " immedi- 

 ately after " (3) ", and by adding at the end thereof the following : 



"(B) After the management program of any coastal state has been 

 Ante , p. 1017. approved by the Secretary under section 306, any person who submits 

 to the Secretary of the Interior any plan for the exploration or devel- 

 opment of, or production from, any area which has been leased under 

 the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and 

 regulations under such Act shall, with respect to any exploration, 

 development, or production described in such plan and affecting any 

 land use or water use in the coastal zone of such state, attach to such 



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