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500,000 for fiscal year 1976, nor in excess of $3,000,000 for fiscal year 

 1977 : Provided further^ That no annual grant made under this section 

 shall be less than 1 per centum of the total amount appropriated to 

 carry out the purposes of this section : And provided further^ That the 

 Secretary shall waive the application of the 1 per centum minimum 

 requirement as to any grant under this section, when the coastal State 

 involved requests such a waiver. 



(c) Prior to granting approval of a management program submitted 

 by a coastal state, the Secretary shall find that : 



(1) The state has developed and adopted a management program for 

 its coastal zone in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated 

 by the Secretary, after notice, and with the opportunity of full par- 

 ticipation by relevant Federal agencies, state agencies, local govern- 

 ments, regional organizations, port authorities, and other interested 

 parties, public and private, which is adequate to carry out the purposes 

 of this title and is consistent with the policy declared in section 303 of 

 this title. 



(2) The state has: 



(A) coordinated its program with local, areawide, and inter- 

 state plans applicable to areas within the coastal zone existing on 

 January 1 of the year in which the state's management program 

 is submitted to the Secretary ; which plans have been developed 

 by a local government, an areawide agency designated pursuant to 

 regulations established under section 204 of the Demonstration 

 Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, a regional 

 agency, or an interstate agency ; and 



(B) established an effective mechanism for continuing con- 

 sultation and coordination between the management agency desig- 

 nated pursuant to paragraph (5) of this subsection and with local 

 governments, interstate agencies, regional agencies, and areawide 

 agencies within the coastal zone to assure the full participation 

 of such local governments and agencies in carrying out the pur- 

 poses of this title. 



No mechanism, referred to in this paragraph for continuing consvlta- 

 tion and coordination shall he found hy the Secretary to he effective 

 unless such mechanism includes, in addition to such other provisions 

 as may he appropriate, provisions under which : 



(i) the management agency designed pursuant to paragraph 

 (S) of this subsection is required, hefore implementing any deci- 

 sion made hy it to carry out the management program, to send 

 notice of such decision to any local govem/ment which has land 

 use or water use control powers within the area to which such 

 decision rruiy apply; 



(ii) any such local government may, within thirty days after 

 the date on. which such notice is received, request the, management 

 agency to hold a public hearing regarding su/'h decision; 



(Hi) the management aaency, upon receiving a request for a 

 public hearing as provided for in clause (ii), is required to hold 

 such Truhlic henriva r^ot sooner thav nivetii da'^s after the date on 

 which notice of the decision is received hy the local government ; 

 aihd 



