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serving, and developing the State's coastal zone is in place (approved) , 

 the Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities will not vio- 

 late such system but will, instead, conduct themselves in a manner 

 consistent with the States' ajiproved management program. This in- 

 cludes conducting or supporting activities in or out of the coastal 

 zone wliich atTect that area. The provisions of section 307(c) (3) in- 

 clude instances where a Federal entity issues a license, lease, or per- 

 mit for any activity in or out of the coastal zone which may a^ffect 

 the State's "coastal zone. In such instances, the pertinent coastal State 

 is provided an opportunity to determine whether that activity, or 

 effects thereof, will be consistent with its a})proved coastal zone man- 

 agement program, and no such license, lease, or permit shall issue 

 until the State's concurrence witli respect to such consistency is pro- 

 vided, or where the State does not act within 6 months, it is presumed. 

 The applicant for such a license, lease, or permit, or for its renewal, is 

 provided an opportunity of appeal and an exception is provided in 

 cases involving national security. As energy faciliti_es have been 

 focused upon more closely recently, the provisions of section 307 for the 

 consistency of Federal actions with the State coastal zone management 

 programs has provided assurance to those concerned with the coastal 

 zone that the law already provides an effective mechanism for guar- 

 anteeing that Federal activities, including those supported by, and 

 those carried on pursuant to. Federal authority (license, lease, or 

 permit) will accord with a rational management plan for protection 

 preservation and development of the coastal zone. One of the sj^ecific 

 federally related energy problem areas for the coastal zone is, of course, 

 the potential effects of Federal activities on the Outer Continental 

 Shelf beyond the State's coastal zones, including Federal authoriza- 

 tions for non-Federal activity, but under the act as it presently exists, 

 as well as the S. 586 amendments, if the activity may affect the State 

 coastal zone and it has an approved management program, the con- 

 sistency requirements do apply. This has been an encouragement to the 

 respective coastal States and the concerned citizens thereof to move 

 toward obtaining an approved management program. 



In regard to the consistency provisions of section 307, the Commit- 

 tee intends that the delays which it has provided in S. 586 for a State 

 in order to permit it to develop and obtain approval of those portions 

 of its program newly required by S. 586, shall in no way prevent the 

 operation of the consistency ])rovisions of section 307 whicli sliall apply 

 to Qxcry State which has received approval for section 306 grants. The 

 portions of the State's management program developed and approved 

 in compliance with those new provisions, however, may well establish 

 additional re<iuirements in the State program which will have to be 

 met to achieve tlie requisite consistency. 



(13) This subsection amends tlie Act by adding three new sections 

 numbered as 308 through 310 and by redesignating the present sections 

 bearing those numbers and succeeding sections so that they follow 

 these three new sections. The new sections are as follows: 



Serfiov 308. 



This section is entitled "Coastal Energy Facility Impact Program." 

 Section 308(a) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (through 



NOAA) to make grants to a coastal State, the coastal zone of which 



