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INTERSTATE COORDINATION GRANTS TO STATES 



Sec. 309. {a) The states are encouraged to give high priority {1) 

 to coordinating state coastal zone planning^ policies^ and programs in 

 contiguous interstate areas., and {2) to studying., planning., and/or 

 implementing unified coastal zone policies in sv^h areas. The states 

 may conduct su^h coordination, study, planning, and implementation 

 through interstate agreement or compact. The /Secretary is anithorized 

 to make annual grants to the coastal states, not to exceed 90 per centum 

 of the cost of such coordination, study, planning, or implementation, 

 if the Secretary finds that each coastal state receiving a grant under 

 this section will use such grants for purposes consistent with the pro- 

 visions 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 con- 

 flict with any law or treaty of the United States, for (1) developing 

 and administering coordinated coastal zone planning, policies, arid 

 programs, pursuant to sections 305 and 306 of this title, and {2) 

 establishing su^h agencies, joint or otherwise, as the states may deem 

 desirable for making effective sueh agreements and compacts. Such 

 agreements or compacts shall be binding and obligatory upon any 

 state or party thereto without further approval by Congress. 



(<?) Each executive instrumentality which is established by an inter- 

 state agreement or compact pursuant to this section is encouraged to 

 establish a Federal-State consultation procedure for the identification, 

 examination, and cooperative resolution of mutual problems with re- 

 spect to the marine and coastal areas which affect, directly or indi- 

 rectly, the applicable coastal zone. The Secretary, the Secretary of the 

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

 the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ad- 

 ministrator of the Federal Energy Administration, or their desiqnated 

 representatives, are authorized and directed to participate ex officio 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 instrumentality or to a group of states for the frurpose of 

 creating temporary ad hoc planning arid coordinating entities to — 

 {!) coordinate state coastal zone planning, policies, and pro- 

 grams in contiguous interstate areas ; 



{2) study, plan, and /or implement unified coastal zone policies 

 in such interstate areas ; and 



(3) provide a tiehicle for communication with Federal officials 

 with regard to Federal activities affecting the coastal zone of sueh 

 interstate areas. 



The amount of such grants shall not exceed 90 per centum, of the cost 

 of creating and maintainina such an entity. The Federal oMnals speci- 

 fied in subsection (c) of this section, or their designated rejyresenta- 

 tives, are authorized arid directed to participate ex officio on behalf of 

 the Federal Government, upon the request of the parties to such ad 

 hoc planning and coordinating entities. This suhsection shall expire at 

 the close of the five-year period beginning on the effective date of this 

 section. 



