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immediately following, shall revert to the Secretary 

 who shall add such amount to the funds available 

 for grants under this section. 



(g) With the approval of the Secretary, any 

 coastal state may allocate to any local government, 

 to any areawide agency designated under section 

 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan 

 Development Act of 1966, to any regional agency, or 

 to any interstate agency, a portion of any grant 

 received by it under this section for the purpose of 

 carrying out the provisions of this section. 



(h) Any coastal state which has completed the 

 development of its management program shall sub- 

 mit such program to the Secretary for review and 

 approval pursuant to section 306. Whenever the 

 Secretary approves the management program of 

 any coastal state under section 306, such state 

 thereafter — 



(1) shall not be eligible for grants under this 

 section; except that such state may receive 

 grants under subsection (c) in order to comply 

 with the requirements of paragraphs (7), (8), 

 and (9) of subsection (b) ; and 



(2) Shall be eligible for grants under section 

 1455. 



(i) The authority to make grants under this sec- 

 tion shall expire on September 30, 1979. (Pub. L. 

 89-454, title III, § 305, as added Pub. L. 92-583. 

 Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1282, and amended Pub. L. 

 94-370, § 4, July 26, 1976, 90 Stat. 1015.) 



AMENDMENTS 



1976. Pub. L. 94-370 substantially revised this section. 



§1455. Administrative grants. 



(a) Authorization. 



The Secretary may make a grant annually to 

 any coastal state for not more than 80 per centum 

 of the costs of administering such state's manage- 

 men program if the Secretary (1) finds that such 

 program meets the requirements of section 1454(b) , 

 and (2) approves such program in accordance with 

 subsections (c) , (d) , and (e) . 



(b) -Allocation of grants. 



Such grants shall be allocated to the states with 

 approved programs based on rules and regulations 

 promulgated by the Secretary which shoM take into 

 account the extent and nature of the shoreline and 

 area covered by the plan, population of the area, 

 and other relevant factors: Provided, That no an- 

 nual grant made under this section shall be in excess 

 of $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, in excess of 

 $2,500,000 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 appro- 

 priated to carry out the purposes of this section: 

 And provided further. That the Secretary shall waive 

 the application of the 1 per centum minimum re- 

 quirement as to any grant under this section, when 

 the coastal State involved requests such a waiver. 



(c) Program requirements. 

 Prior to granting approval of a management pro- 



gram 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 ac- 

 cordance with rules and regulations promulgated 

 by the Secretary, after notice, and with the oppor- 

 tunity of full participation by relevant Federal 

 agencies, state agencies, local governments, re- 

 gional organizations, port authorities, and other 

 interested parties, public and private, which is ade- 

 quate to carry out the purposes of this chapter and 

 is consistent with the policy declared in section 

 1452 of this title. 



(2) The state has: 



(A) coordinated its program with local, area- 

 wide, and interstate plans applicable to areas 

 within the coastal zone existing on January 1 of 

 the year in which the state's management pro- 

 gram is submitted to the Secretary, which plans 

 have been developed by a local government, an 

 areawide agency designated pursuant to regula- 

 tions established imder section 3334 of Title 42, 

 a regional agency, or an interstate agency; and 



(B) established an effective mechanism for 

 continuing consultation and coordination be- 

 tween the man.igement agency designated pur- 

 suant to paragraph (5) of this subsection and 

 with local governments, interstate agencies, re- 

 gional agencies, and areawide agencies within 

 the coastal zone to assure the full participation 

 of such local governments and agencies in carry- 

 ing out the purposes of this chapter; except 

 that the Secretary shall not find any mech- 

 anism to be ■•effective" for purposes of this 

 subparagraph unless it includes each of the 

 lowing requirements : 



(i) Such management agency is required, 

 before implementing any management pro- 

 gram decision which would conflict with 

 any local zoning ordinance, decision, or 

 other action, to send a notice of such man- 

 agement program decision to any local gov- 

 ernment whose zoning authority is affected 

 thereby. 



(ii) Any such notice shall provide that 

 such local government may, within the 30- 

 day period commencing on the date of re- 

 ceipt of such notice, submit to the manage- 

 ment agency written comments on such 

 management program decision, and any 

 recommendation for alternatives thereto, if 

 no action is taken during such period which 

 would conflict or interfere with such man- 

 agement program decision, unless such local 

 government waives its right to comment. 



(iii) Such management agency, if any 

 such comments are submitted to it, with 

 such 30-day period, by any local govern- 

 ment — 



(I) is required to consider any such 

 comments, 



(II) is authorized, in its discretion, to 

 hold a public hearing on such comments, 

 and 



(III) may not take any action within 



