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"(///) Such management agency^ if any ^such conmients 

 are submitted to it, ivithin such 30-day period, hy any 

 local government — 



"(/) is required to consider any such comments, 

 " {II) is authorised, in its discretion, to hold a 

 'public hearing on such comments, and 



'"''{III) may not take any action within su£h 30- 

 day period to implement the management program 

 decision, whether or not m.odified on the basis of such 

 comments^; 

 {3) by amending subsection {c) {8) to read, as foUovjs — 

 "(5) The management program provides for adequate consid- 

 eration of the national interest involved in planning for, and in 

 the siting of, facilities {including energy facilities in, or which 

 significantly affect, such stated coastal zone) which are necessary 

 to meet requirements which are other than local in nature. In the 

 case of such energy facilities, the Secretary shall find that the 

 state ha^s given such corisideration to any applicable interstate 

 energy plan or program.'''' ; 



(4.) by amending subsection {g) to read as follows: 

 "(^) Any coastal state may amend or modify the management pro- 

 gram ivhich it has submitted and which has been approved by the Sec- 

 retary under this section, pursuant to the required procedures described 

 in subsection {c). Except with respect to any such amendment which 

 is made before October 1, 1978, for the purpose of complying with the 

 requirements of paragraphs (7), (<§), and {9) of section 305{b), no 

 grant shall be made under this section to any coastal state after the 

 date of such an amendment or modification, until the Secretary ap- 

 proves such ameiulment or inodification.''\ 



SEC. 6. CONSISTENCY AND MEDIATION. 



Section 307 of the Coastal Zone Maiiagement Act of 1972 {16 U.S.C. 

 lJfS6) is amended — 



{1) by striking out "ixteragexcy" in the title of such section; 



{2) by stinking out the last sentence of subsection {b) ; 



{3) by amending subsection {c) {3) by inserting''^ {A)'"' iTnmedi- 

 ately after "(5)", and by addi^ig at the end thereof the folloioing: 

 "(^) After the management program of any coastal state has been 

 approved by the Secretary under section 306, any person who submits 

 to the Secretary of the Interior any plan for the exploration or develop- 

 ment of, or production from, any area which has been leased under 

 the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act {^3 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and 

 regulations under such Act shall, with respect to any exploration, 

 development, or production described in such plan and affecting any 

 land use or water use in the coastal zone of such state, attach to such 

 plan a certification that each activity which is described in detail in 

 such plan complies with such staters approved management program 

 and will be carried out in a 'tnanner consistent with such program. No 

 Federal official or agency shall grant such person any license or permit 

 for any activity described in detail in such plan until such state or its 

 designated agency receives a copy of such certiflcaiion and plan, to- 

 gether with any other necessary data and inforination, and until — 



