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directs that tliese regulations sliall be promulirated as soon as possible 

 after these amendments become hnv. subject, of course, to such subse- 

 quent revisions of those refridations, as may be required. 



This amendment also enables States to receive section 805 develop- 

 ment grants for the purposes of said paracrraphs (7) and (8) even 

 tliou<rli its ability to receive g;rants for the balance of that section may 

 have expired because it has received or-rants for the maximum 4-year 

 period or because it is receivin<>: ''administrative "grants" under section 

 306. Coastal States which apply for approval of their manaofement 

 program under section 800 after fiscal year 1978 will have to meet the 

 requirements of these regulations as well as others. Coastal States 

 which are already receiving' grants under section 806 will be required 

 by the beginning of fiscal year 1979 to have developed the parts of 

 their program which include the process and plan required by section 

 805 (b) (7) and (8) and to have received approval thereof in accord- 

 ance with section 806, in order to receive section 806 grants without 

 interruption. T^ecause. as earlier noted, energy facilities and protection 

 and access foi- public beaches were already inherent in the Act without 

 the specificity provided by S. 586, it is not the Conuuittee's intent to 

 build in a delay factoi- for nil beach access, protection and energy fa- 

 cility planning, but oidy for those new requirements necessary to con- 

 foi'm the coastal zone management plans with those specific regulations 

 necessary to implement 8()5(b) (7) and (8). The regulations for the 

 coastal zone management |)rogram should clearly identify tliose to 

 which the delay provided by the amendments to section 805 (d) will 

 apply. 



(8) This subsection amends section 805(h) to extend from June 80, 

 1977 to September 80, 1979, the authority to make grants under section 

 805. Partly because of the lack of financial support in the first year of 

 the Act and for other reasons, there are some coastal States which did 

 not begin receiving section 805 grants as soon as the committee had 

 oriirinally anticipated. 



This amendment provides an additional 2 years for States to be 

 developing th(>ii- programs and to receive grants therefor, subject of 

 course to the 4-vear participation period for each State in section 

 805(c) (extended by S. 586 in some cases with respect to 805(b) (7) 

 and (8) as discussed previously). 



The Committee, however, reaffirms its hope that the coastal States 

 will get on with the task of developing coastal zone management pro- 

 grams to the point of having them approved so that they may i-eceive 

 section ;)06 grants. Tlie Committee does not coiitem])late giving ex- 

 tensions bevond the ))i-esent oiu'. 



(9) This subsection amends the "Administ i-ative (rrants"' section 

 (806) so as to incr(>ase the nuixinnuii Federal share of tlie costs of tlie 

 ongoing State [jrogi-am operation to 80*}^ from the present 66%%. 

 The increase in Fedei'al })ai-ticipation is necessary to jirovide the re- 

 quisite Federal financial support to the coastal States in the actual 

 caiTving out of their a])i)i'oved management ])rograms. For effective 

 ])ei-fornuince of the State's responsibilities, fuiuling sliould be snfli- 

 cient to enable them to devote their maximum effoi'ts to this task which, 

 of course, has been, aiul will be, made more dinicult by the incieased em- 

 phasis on develo))ments pei-taining lo energy su|)])ly and production. 



