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hensive state program is a difficult process requiring a reasonable 

 amount of time. Since tlie Administration delayed initial funding of 

 the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 by one year, an additional 

 year of development time is considered essential. 



This amendment would also delete the second sentence of section 

 305(c) which pertains to the use of other P'ederal funds received by a 

 state as part of a state's matching share. It should be noted that while 

 this particular language is deleted from this section, an additional 

 amendment (section 320(c)) would have the etfect of applying this 

 provision to the entire title. Therefore, section 305(c) was amended 

 to avoid redundancy. 



Schedule for completion of tiew section 305 requirements 



(7) The Committee has recognized that the addition of three new 

 requirements under section 305 funding comes when many states are 

 well along in development of their coastal management programs and 

 are already to submit them for approval and funding under section 306. 

 In this section, it is provided that states in such situations, through 

 September 30, 1978, may receive final approval of their programs even 

 if development of the policies called for in subsection 305(b) (7), (8), 

 and (9) are not complete. 



Likewise, in subsection 305(d) (B), the Committee provides that 

 funding for program development in these three specific new areas may 

 continue, through September 30, 1978, even though a state may be re- 

 ceiving funds under section 306 to administer the other portions of a 

 state program^ The Committee feels that the time given between hnal 

 enactment of this bill and September 30, 1978, should be sufficient to 

 prepare the materials called for in the three new {)lanning requirements 

 and to submit them for final approval and inclusion m a management 

 program administered under section 306. 



To make clear its intent that the three new requirements mandated 

 under the additions to section 305 are included in the administrative 

 grants section of the Act, in section 13 the Committee added as new 

 requirements for approval under section 306, subsection (i) that to be 

 eligible for funding after fiscal year 1978 a state must include as an 

 integral part of its program the plan for protecting and providing 

 access to public attractions in the coasts, the plan for energy facility 

 siting and for dealing with the impacts therefrom and the plan for 

 shoreline erosion impacts. 



In addition to requiring the three new elements in coastal manage- 

 ment programs, the Committee has effectively set a deadline of Sep- 

 tember 30, 1978, for their completion and has provided the funding 

 authorization to make this possible. 



^'"Preliminary approval''' amendment to section 305 



(8) This section contains a major addition to the structure of the 

 coastal zone management pi'ogram. The language was adopted by the 

 Committee after close consultation with the Office of Coastal Zone 

 Management and directly retiects the experience of that office and 

 the states in carrying out the intent of the Act passed in 1972. 



That Act pi-ovided a two-step prot^ess. First, under section 305 

 funding, states were to develop their comprehensive coastal zone 

 management programs for final approval by the Secretary of Com- 



