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succeeding fiscal years. The amount of such grant to each such State in any 

 given year shall be calculated on the basis of the previous year's volume of oil 

 or natural gas landed in the State or produced adjacent to the State. Such 

 grants shall initially be designated by each receiving State to retire State and 

 local bonds which are guaranteed under section 316 of this Act : Provided, That, 

 if the amoinit of such grants is insufficient to retire both State and local boiiu^;, 

 priority shall be given to retiring local bonds. 



"(1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Coastal Energy 

 Facility Impact Fund such sums not to exceed $250,000,000 for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1976, not to exceed $75,000,000 for the transitional fiscal quarter 

 ending September 30, 1976, not to exceed $250,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 September 30, 1977, and not to exceed $250,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 September 30, 1978, as may be necessary, for grants and/or loans under this 

 section, to remain available until expended. No more than 20 percent of the total 

 amount appropriated to such fund for a particular fiscal year, not to exceed 

 $50,000,000 per year, shall be used for the purposes set forth in subsection (a) 

 of this section. 



"INTEBSTATE COOBDINATION GBANTS TO STATES 



"Sec. 309. (a) The States are encouraged to give high priority (1) to coordinat- 

 ing State coastal zone planning, policies, and programs in contiguous interstate 

 areas, and (2) to studying, planning, and/or implementing unified coastal zone 

 policies in such areas. The States may conduct such coordination, study, planning, 

 and implementation through interstate agreement or compacts. The Secretary 

 is authorized to make annual grants to the coastal States, not to exceed 90 percent 

 of the cost of such coordination, study, planning, or implementation, if the Secre- 

 tary finds that each coastal State receiving a grant under this section will use 

 such grants for purposes consistent with the provisions of sections 305 and 306 

 of this title. 



"(b) The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to 

 negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with any law or 

 treaty of the United States, for (1) developing and administering coordinated 

 coastal zone planning, policies, and programs, pursuant to sections 305 and 306 

 of this title, and (2) the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as the 

 States may deem desirable for making effective such agreements and compacts. 

 Such agreement or compact shall be binding and obligatory upon any State or 

 party thereto without further approval by Congress. 



"(c) Each executive instrumentality w^hich is established by an interstate 

 agreement or compact pursuant to this section is encouraged to establish a Fed- 

 eral-State consultation procedure for the identification, examination, and coopera- 

 tive resolution of mutual problems with respect to the marine and coastal areas 

 which affect, directly or indirectly, the applicable coastal zone. The Secretary, 

 the Secretary of the Interior, the Chairman of the Council of Environmental 

 Quality, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or their 

 designated representatives, are authorized and directed to parMcipate ex oflScio on 

 behalf of the Federal Government, whenever any such Federal-State consultation 

 is requested by such an instrumentality. 



"(d) Prior to establishment of an interstate agreement or compact pursuant 

 to this section, the Secretary is authorized to make grants to a multistate instru- 

 mentality or to a group of States for the purpose of creating temporary ad hoc 

 planning and coordinating entities to — 



"(1) coordinate State coastal zone planning, policies, and programs in con- 

 tiguous interstate areas ; 



"(2) study, plan, and/or implement unified coastal zone policies in such inter- 

 state areas; and 



"(3) provide for a vehicle for communication with Federal oflScials with regard 

 to Federal activities affecting the coastal zone of such interstate areas. 

 The amount of such grants shall not exceed 90 percent of the cost of creating and 

 maintaining such an entity. The Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, the 

 Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Administrator of the 

 Environmental Protection Agency, or their designated representatives, are au- 

 thorized and directed to participate ex officio on behalf of the Federal Govern- 

 ment, upon the request of the parties to such ad hoc planning and coordinating 

 entities. This subsection shall become void and cease to have any force or effect 5 

 years after the date of enactment of this title. 



