three methods by which a State might carry out its management responsibilities in an acceptable manner. Section 306(e) of the Act provides: (a) Prior to granting approval, the Secretary shall also find that the program provides: (1) For any one or a combination of the following general techniques for control of land and water uses within the coastal zone: (1) State establishment of criteria and standards for local implementation, subJect to administrative review and enforcement of compliance; (ii) Direct State land and water use planning and regulation; or (iii) State administrative review for consistency with the management program of all development plans, projects, or land water use regulations, including exceptions and variance thereto, proposed by any State or local authority or private developer with power to approve or disapprove after public notice and an opportunity for hearings. It is for the several States to determine the appropriate role of local governments in administering its coastal zone program. The Act recognizes that local governments are closest to those who will be most affected by a management program and that many sub-State units often can make a useful contribution to the development of the program. Section 306 requires that: Local governments and other interested public and private parties must have an opportunity for full participation in the development of the management program: the State has coordinated with local, areawide, and interstate plans; and, the State has established an effective mechanism for continuing consultation and coordination with local governments and other units to insure their full participation in carrying out the management program (e.g., advisory councils composed of representatives of local government). (b) Some of the issues to be addressed in identifying the means by which a State will propose to exert its control include: (1) Whether existing State powers and authority are sufficient to exert one of the three alternative means of control specified in section 306(e); (2) What specific modifications or strengthened mandates would be needed to qualify the State under section 306(d) and (e); (3) Whether a shared State-local or State-area wide regional consolidated regulatory system should be established. It is important that the States determine at an early stage whether legislation is needed, and identify the elements of that legislation to meet the requirements in section 306(d) and (e). This requires that the State, acting through its chosen agency or agencies, including local gov RULES AND REGULATIONS with the management program. Such authority shall include power (i) To administer land and water use regulations, control development in order to insure compliance with the management program, and to resolve conflicts among competing uses; and, (ii) To acquire fee simple and less than fee simple interests in lands, waters, and other property through condemnation or other means where necessary to achieve conformance with the management program. The required listing of relevant constitutional provisions, legislative enactments, regulations and judicial decisions will, of course, be one foundation for analyzing and making decisions concerning the above issues and alternatives. In order to undertake the kinds of work outlined above, however, it will be necessary to go beyond a mere listing by preparing an assessment of current legal constraints or prohibitions, needed executive or legislative initiatives, and where required, to prepare the elements of any legislative program needed to establish a comprehensive and effective management program. There is room to exercise strengthened design and management imagination and creativity under this program for coastal zone management. While past research and planning efforts have often been limited by existing law, policy and practices, the Act encourages creative approaches to action programs for orderly development, and preservation or restoration of areas within the coastal zone for their conservation, recreational, ecological or esthetic values. Thus, the States are encouraged to consider innovative techniques or strategies that are now being tested and utilized both in the United States and elsewhere that they deem suitable to their management needs. § 920.15 Designation of priority uses within specific geographic arcas throughout the coastal zone. Section 305 (b) (5) of the Act requires that the management program include "broad guidelines on priority of uses in particular areas including specifically those uses of lowest priority." This required element is closely tied to the requirements in §§ 920.12 and 920.13 and should build upon the States' findings and conclusions reached concerning "permissible uses" and areas of "particular concern." These decisions should assist the State in establishing preferred uses tailored to specific areas in its coastal zone. Priority guidelines will serve three essential purposes: (a) To provide the basis for regulating land and water uses in the coastal zone; (b) To provide the State, local governments, area wide/regional agencies, and citizens with a common reference point for resolving conflicts, and in the preservation, conservation, and orderly development of specific areas in (c) To articulate the States' interest ernments, area wide agencies designated under section 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, regional agencies, or interstate agencies, have authority for the manage- It should be noted that States will be exment of the coastal zone in accordance pected to utilize all available information its coastal zone. 33047 relating to characteristics of the coastal zone when planning for specific uses. For example, data on flood inundation at 100year intervals should be examined to determine the feasibility or wisdom of construction on affected sites. § 920.16 Organizational structure to implement the management program. Section 305(b) (6) requires a management program to include: “A description of the organizational structure proposed to implement the management program, including the responsibilities and interrelationships of local, areawide, State, regional and interstate agencies in the management process." One essential element of the organizational structure is the requisite State involvement in land and water use decisions in the coastal zone as set forth in § 920.14. Another, is the process of coordination by the State with local, areawide, regional and interstate agencies, in the development and administration of the management program. Guidance with respect to organizational structure is provided in section 306 (c) which requires that the Secretary, prior to granting approval of a management program, find that: (a) The State has (1) Coordinated its program with local, areawide, and interstate plans ap plicable 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 area wide 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 (2) Established an effective mechanism for continuing consultation and coordination between the management agency designated (by the Governor) and with local governments, interstate agencies, regional agencies, and area wide agencies within the coastal zone to assure the full participation of such local governments and agencies in carrying out the purposes of this Act. (b) The management program and any changes thereto have been reviewed and approved by the Governor. (c) The Governor of the State has designated a single agency to receive and administer the grants for implementing the management program. (d) The State is organized to implement the management program required under paragraph (d)(1) of this section. Based on policies, management ap proaches, technical data, priorities and existing or potential powers and authori ties developed by the State in §§ 920.11 through 920.15, the critical issues of or ganizational structure, administrative responsibilities and institutional arrangements must be resolved. While a detailed institutional structure for achieving the Act's objectives cannot be specified in advance of development of the management program, the agency designated, or to be designated, by the Governor to re ceive and administer management grants management program is to create the should have: (1) Authority to correlate the activities of all State, local, areawide/regional or other entities in the coastal zone: (2) Appropriate access to the Governor; and (3) Requisite powers set forth in section 306 of the Act. In addition, States should strengthen cooperative mechanisms for State-Federal consultation in key mutual areas of concern, particularly where Federal activi ties affect the coastal zone. Section 306 requires that the management program provide for a method of assuring that local land and water use regulations within the coastal zone do not unreasonably restrict or exclude land and water uses of regional benefit. Cooperation among the various State and regional agencies including establishment of interstate and regional agreements, cooperative procedures, and joint action, particularly regarding environmental problems and resource development in the national or regional interest, is encouraged. Subpart C-Research and Technical § 920.20 General. (a) It is clear that the process of developing (and operating) & management program for the coastal zone will necessarily involve frequent access to informational and research sources. In many cases, adequate understanding of questions such as dune stabilization, barrier beach dynamics, salt marsh productivity and estuarine circulation and flushing, to mention only a few. will be needed in order to develop successful management programs. Also, the process of inventorying and mapping the nature of a State's zone, and designation of areas of particular concern almost certainly will benefit from the application of technologies such as those employing remote sensing. (b) A substantial number of sources for such information exist within Federal agencies, in universities, in State and Federal laboratories and research cen ters, and in the private sector. NOAA's Office of Coastal Environment, with the assistance of the Environmental Data Service, will endeavor to serve generally as a clearinghouse for specialized coastal zone technical information, and will issue pertinent publications on appropriate technical support available at least from Federal sources. (c) Because some features of the coastal zone remain incompletely understood, States may find it necessary to act without all of the basic technical information that they require. The Office of Coastal Environment intends to identify unsolved coastal research problems and will seek to facilitate their solution. Monitoring programs established as part of the development of a management program may also, if properly designed, produce data which can be used to elucidate important coastal zone phenomena. (d) It should be pointed out that the primary emphasis of the coastal zone mechanism for States to exert appropriate control over land and water uses and to begin the management process, not to engage in long-term research projects. Applications for management program development grants which contain substantial research elements will be carefully reviewed to assure that these elements are essential to the successful development of a State's management program and are an integral part of a comprehensive review of existing information relating to the management program. Clearly, the nature of this program will give preference to and encourage research in such applied activities as resource surveys, inventories, and determination of environmental carrying capacities. (e) In developing their management programs, States should always endeavor to locate and utilize existing information and research sources to the extent applicable and available rather than undertaking unnecessary independent research or information gathering, as part of program development effectiveness. In this respect, the Office of Coastal Environment should ordinarily be initially contacted to ascertain what information and assistance it can provide. $920.21 Approaches to research activi ties. In addition to taking full advantage of the various sources of technical information found within the individual States, the States will also find that one of the important sources of technical information will be the various components of NOAA which support ongoing programs in coastal research and mapping, physical oceanography, and hydrography. Those elements of NOAA which States may wish to contact for assistance include: (a) Office of Sea Grant: Supports a large program of university research aimed largely at coastal zone-related problemis. Contact Office of Sea Grant, Pennsylvania Building, 425 13th Street NW., Washington, D.C. (b) National Ocean Survey: Conducts a substantial inhouse effort on coastal mapping and charting, geodesy, hydrography, and related subjects. Contact National Ocean Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, Md. 20852. (c) National Marine Fisheries Service: Undertake biological and ecological research and other programs relevant to commercial and sport fisheries of all types. Contact National Marine Fisheries Service, Page Building 2, 3300 Whitehaven Street NW., Washington, D.C. (d) Environmental Data Service: Monitors large quantities of environmental data of all types, including weather, oceanographic and earth sciences. Includes National Oceanic Data Center. Contact Environmental Data Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Page Building 2, 3300 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, D.C. (e) Environmental Research Laboratories: Conduct a wide ranging research program in the ocean and atmospheric sciences. Contact Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colo. 80302. (1) Office of Coastal Environment: Contains responsibility for administration of the Coastal Zone Management Act as well as a number of coastal environmental studies and manned underwater activity programs. Contact Office of Coastal Environment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, Md. 20852. (g) Other sources of information and resourses are: (1) Research carried on by or for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: (2) The Environmental Protection Agency has information on environmental programs and water quality studies and could be consulted for technical information and assistance in environmental pollution control problems and techniques; (3) Department of Housing and Urban Development research program; (4) Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of the Interior; (5) National Science Foundation-Research Applied to National Needs; and (6) U.S. Geological Survey water and minerals resources investigations. (h) In addition to the research activities cited above, there are many ongoing programs conducted by agencies at the State and Federal level which can provide technical assistance and should be utilized where appropriate. Inasmuch as further effort will be made to identify relevant Federal program, they are not described in detail here. They are, however, housed in such Federal agencies as: Regional Economic Development Commissions. Soll Conservation Service, National Aeronautic and Space Administration, Atomic Energy Commission, Water Resources Councils and Associated River Basin Commissions. (i) Finally, it is important to establish and maintain a relationship with the re search community, designers, planners, decisionmakers, and managers. Because applied and basic research will be a continuing need in coastal zone management, States should review and develop explicit statements of their research needs and strengthen their contacts and involvement with the private and public research community, by taking a lead role in determining research and technical assistance priorities, continuing mutual project development activities and translation of scientific findings into information useful for managers. Subpart D-Public Participation § 920.30 Public participation is an essential element of development and administration of a coastal zone management program. Through citizen involvement in the development of a management program, public needs and aspirations can be reflected in use decisions for the coastal zone, and public support for the management program can be generated. Participating States, therefore, should seek to obtain extensive public participation in the development and administration of a coastal zone management program. § 920.31 Public hearings. Section 306(c)(3) of the Act requires that public hearings be held in the development of the management program. (a) Notice. Notification of public hearing should provide the public the longest period of notice practical, but in no event should notice less than the 30-day statutory minimum be provided. Announcement of the hearings should be through media designed to inform the public-not merely to provide "technical notice." Therefore, in addition to any publication of legal notice as required by State law, reasonably informative news releases should be made available to the news media in the affected communities. (b) Access to document. At the time of the announcement, all agency materials pertinent to the hearings, including documents, studies, the agenda for the hearing, and other data, must be made available to the public for review and study in the locale where the hearings are to be conducted. (c) Number of hearings. Where a State has determined that a public hearing or hearings will be held only on the entire plan, it shall assure that the public is afforded an adequate opportunity to participate in the hearings. RULES AND REGULATIONS the population of the coastal zone fluc- (f) Report. A verbatim transcript of 33049 coastal zone which most urgently need management programs: Provided, That the State adequately provides for the ultimate coordination of the various geographical segments of the management program into a single unified program and that the unified program will be completed as soon as is reasonably practicable. Grants given to the State must be expended for the development of a management program that meets the requirements of the Act. The grants shall not exceed two-thirds of the costs of the annual programs. Federal funds received from other sources cannot be used to § 920.32 Additional means of public match these grants. No more than three participation. Formal public hearings may not provide an adequate opportunity for information exchange. To insure that the public is heard during the development of the program, efforts should be made to encourage discussion in various forums of the subject matter of the hearings and to take other steps to insure that the public can participate in the process in a meaningful manner. The following are suggested to accommodate increased public participation: (a) Establish arrangements for exchanging information, data, and reports, among State and local government agencies, citizen groups, special interest groups, and the public at large, throughout the development and administration of the coastal zone program. (b) The State should provide, after notice, the opportunity of participation by relevant Federal agencies, State agencies, local organizations, port authorities and other interested parties both public and private. (c) Develop mechanisms in addition lowing are examples of some of the com- (1) Citizen involvement in the devel- (2) Citizen appointment by the agency to a Citizen Advisory Committee. Where a portion of the plan has been (d) Location of hearings. Hearings should be held in those geographic areas which would be principally affected by the decisions on issues under consideration at the hearing, e.g., establishment of priority uses for a given geographic area. Hearings on the total management program should be held in places within the State where all citizens of the State may have an opportunity to comment. (e) Timing of hearings. In many cases, (3) Establishment of processes to review component elements of the management program by selected citizen groups and the general public. annual management program development grants can be awarded to a State. (b) Section 305 (c) of the Act provides: In order to qualify for grants under this section, the State must reasonably demorstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such grants will be used to develop a management program consistent with the requirements set forth in section 306 of the Act. After making the initial grant to a coastal State, no subsequent grant shall be made under this section unless the Secretary finds that the State is satisfactorily developing such management program. § 920.41 Administration of the program. The Congress assigned the responsibility for the administration of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to the Secretary of Commerce, who has designated the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the agency in the Department of Commerce to manage the program. NOAA has established the Office of Coastal Zone Management for this purpose. Requests for information on grant applications and the applications themselves should be directed to: Director, Office of Coastal Environment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. U.S. Department of Commerce, Rockville. Md. 20852. § 920.42 State responsibility. (a) Applications for initial development grants must be submitted by the Governor of a coastal State or his designee. (b) The application shall designate a single State official, agency, or entity, to receive development grants and have responsibility for the development of the Subpart E-Applications for Development State's coastal zone management pro $920.40 Grants General. (a) The primary purpose of the development grant is to assist States in developing a comprehensive management program for their coastal zone. While the majority of the responsibility for developing a management program resides with the State, a State is permitted to allocate a portion of its grant to subState entities, or multi-State organizations, to assist in the development of a management program. At the discretion of the State and with the approval of the Secretary, a management program may be developed and adopted in geographical segments so that immediate attention may be devoted to those areas within the gram. The designee need not necessarily be that agency which will be designated by the Governor under the provisions of section 306 (c) (5) of the Act as the single agency to receive and administer the grants for implementing the management program. (c) A single State application will cover all program development activities. whether carried out by State agencies, area wide/regional agencies, local governments, regional or interstate entities. § 920.43 Allocation. Section 305 (g) allows a State to allocate a portion of its development grant to sub-State or multi-State entities. States must insure, in the development of the management program, that they de 33050 velop sufficient capability to administer the coastal zone management programs they are developing. If the State intends to allocate a portion of its grant, the application for a development grant shall set forth the manner in which a State plans to allocate any portion of its grant to sub-State units, multi-State units, or any other allocation. Requests for allocation will not be approved unless it is clearly demonstrated that the State is developing sufficient capabilities, and the work to be accomplished as the result of such allocations is integrated into the State's coastal zone management program development effort and will clearly contribute to the development of effective applications of State's policy in the coastal zone. (a) Areawide / Regional agencies. Should the application indicate the desire of the State to allocate a portion of its management program development grant to an areawide/regional agency under the provisions of section 305(g) of the Act, in the absence of State law to the contrary, preference shall be given to those agencies recognized or designated as area wide/regional comprehensive planning and development agencies under the provisions of Office of Management and Budget circular No. A-95, under section 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 or Title IV of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968. The provisions of part IV, OMB circular No. A-95 dealing with the "Coordination of Planning in Multijurisdictional Areas" apply to the area wide/regional agencies designated as recipients of management program development grants under this Act. (b) Local government. Should the application indicate the desire of the State to allocate a portion of its management program development grant to a local government under the provisions of section 305(g) of the Act, units of generalpurpose local government are preferred rather than special-purpose units of local government, as provided in section 402 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968. RULES AND REGULATIONS from interstate or multi-State agencies, but only from the individual States involved in the joint program. $920.44 Geographical segmentation. Authority is provided in the Act for a State's management program to be "developed and adopted in segments so that immediate attention may be devoted to those areas within the coastal zone which most urgently need management programs." Request by a State to develop and adopt a program in geographical segments is subject to the additional proviso that the State "adequately provides for the ultimate coordination of the various geographical segments of the management program into a single unified program and that the unified program will be completed as soon as it is reasonably practicable." Undue geographical segmentation creates the possibility of continuing the status quo without creating a comprehensive management program. tends to involve various levels of government in the development and implementation of the management program; (5) A mechanism for coordination with agencies administering excluded Federal lands that are in the coastal land; and (6) A tentative approximation of the boundaries of the State's coastal zone. (e) Submission of an annual work program consisting of a precise statement of what is intended to be accomplished during the year. Such a statement will include: (1) Identification of the plans, programs and studies to be produced. (2) Definition of the major tasks needed to produce the plans, programs and studies. (3) For each task, the following should be specified: (1) Approach and techniques to be used, (ii) Data and studies already avail § 920.45 Application for the initial able. grant. The application for the initial development grant shall include but not be limited to: (a) Identification of the designated official, the State agency or entity designated by the Governor to prepare and submit the State's management program and receive its development grant as well as the legal authority or other basis under which the lead agency or entity operates. It shall also indicate what other State agencies may be involved in the development of the management program and, if the State desires to allocate a portion of its grant to other governmental units, it should identify those units and set forth the work proposed to be accomplished by each unit so identified. (b) A summarization of the State's past and current activities in its coastal zone, the current status of coastal zone management, and other activities. (c) A discussion and ranking by general order of importance of the major coastal zone related problems and issues facing the State, as well as identification of the goals and objectives the State hopes to achieve by development of its coastal zone management program. (d) A management program design detailing the work to be accomplished in the development of the State's coastal zone management program. The management program design serves as an outline for the State's plan of action for developing a management program and should include a projection of how the State will seek to meet the requirements set forth in subpart B of this part. In addition, the management program design should include: (c) Interstate agencies. At the discretion of two or more Governors of adjacent or related coastal States, coordinated management programs or research and planning efforts may be developed leading to the establishment of management programs for such interstate or multi-State areas. Such proposals for interstate cooperation and action shall be set forth in the application for each State together with the interstate funding arrangements proposed for the joint work. The States involved may designate interstate compact agencies. Regional Action Planning Commissions, river basin commissions. or an interstate areawide/regional planning agency to accomplish the management program development work for the coastal zone management area within each jurisdiction as they see fit. Applications for interstate management program development grants will not be accepted directly mental process by which the State in (1) An identification of existing information and sources of information: (ii) Manpower requirements, (vi) Source of funds. (f) Identification of any other State and Federal planning, programming, or activity which may have a significant impact on the State's coastal zone. Such planning, programming or activities includes work accomplished or to be undertaken by any State, areawide, local, regional or interstate agencies funded, in part or in total, by State or local money, with or without Federal assistance. Completed and officially approved regional and local plans provide invaluable input and guidance in the development of a State's coastal zone management program. It should be pointed out that where a State chooses to reject such plans, it should advise the local government wherein its proposed plan is deficient and clarify what needs to be done to correct the deficiency. The objective of this provision is to seek and achieve as complete coordination and integration as possible at the State level of all local, State and Federal programs that lead to the setting of policy or the development of public and private works, facilities or programs in the State's defined coastal zone. The Act provides in section 307 (c) (1) that: "Each Federal agency conducting or supporting activities directly affecting the coastal zone shall conduct or support those activities in a manner which is to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with approved State management programs." To this end, the application shall reflect, and the developed coastal zone management program will provide, methods to integrate the following types of programs and activities as they affect the coastal zone of the state: (1) Federally assisted planning development and maniagement programs, such as but not lim (2) A projection as to additional information which must be acquired; (3) A description of methods to insure ited to (the program numbers and titles public participation; (4) A description of the intergovern listed below are those contained in the 1972 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance as published by OMB RULES AND REGULATIONS notify the applicant in writing and set forth in detail the manner in which the application fails to conform to the re(14.208) quirements of the Act or this subpart. Conferences may be held on these matters. Corrections or other adjustments to the application will provide the basis for resubmittal of the application for further consideration and review. (15.401) (15.600) (15. 605) (15.611) (15.903) (15.904) (20. 103) (20-205) Pub. L. 91-453; (20-505) 88-365. (2) Public works land acquisition and development projects conducted, proposed to be conducted, proposed to be conducted or assisted by a Federal agency, authorized and financed outside of the Federal programs listed above, such as activities conducted with respect to rivers and harbors, small watershed development, wastewater collection and treatment facilities, military reservations, wildlife refuges, park and recreation areas, improvements in navigation, flood control and so forth; (3) Any Federally supported national land use program which may be hereinafter enacted as specified in section 307 (g) of the Act; (4) Activities in the coastal zone stemming from the Rural Development Act of 1972; (5) State programs dealing with land use controls in the coastal zone or other regulatory, licensing, permit or operating programs in the coastal zone including, but not limited to, activities such as mineral extracting, power plant siting and harbor construction. § 920.46 Approval of applications. (a) The Secretary shall approve any application which he finds complies with policy and requirements of the Act and these guidelines. (b) Should the Secretary determine that an application is deficient, he shall (c) The Secretary may, upon finding of extenuating circumstances relating to applications for assistance, waive appropriate administrative requirements contained herein. § 920.47 Amendments. Amendments to an approved development program must be submitted to, and approved by the Secretary prior to initiation of the change contemplated. Requests for substantial changes should be discussed with Federal officials well in advance. It is recognized that, while all amendments must be approved by the Secretary, most such requests will be relatively minor in scope; therefore, approval by the Secretary may be presumed for minor amendments if the State has not been notified of objections within 30 working days of date of postmark of the request. § 920.48 Applications for second year grants. (a) Second year development grant applications will follow the procedures set forth in 1920.45: Provided, however, That the management program design and annual work program shall be updated to indicate the progress made toward the development of the State's coastal zone management program under the initial development grant and should in addition: (1) Demonstrate how the past year's work activities and products contributed to the realization of management program development goals if such goals have not been fully realized. Either document the extent to which they have been met or present modified goals. (2) Identify major constraints upon or problems encountered in establishing and implementing an adequate management program for the State. (3) Reexamine and assess the development program's broad goals and measurable planning objectives; and (4) Reexamine and, if necessary, reof emerging or continuing priority probvise management program design in light lems and opportunities. (b) In evaluating whether a State is making satisfactory progress in the development of the management program to determine eligibility for the second 33051 year grant, the Secretary will consider among other things whether a State has completed: (1) An analysis of the existing legal authority to exert control over land and water uses in the coastal zone; (2) A description of the activities and authorities of the various agencies (State, local, regional, area wide or interstate) involved in activities or regulation of activities in the coastal zone; and (3) An analysis of the existing or needed legal authorities with which the State believes it can insure compliance with coastal zone management program, resolve conflicts among competing uses, and acquire fee simple and less than fee simple interests in lands, waters, and other property through condemnation or other means when necessary to achieve conformance with the management in paragraph (a) of 920.46 shall apply to review of the application for the third year development grant. (a) The general requirements set forth (b) In evaluating whether a State is making satisfactory progress in development of the management program to determine eligibility for the third year grant, the Secretary will consider among other things whether a State has completed: (1) Identification of the boundaries of the coastal zone; (2) Development of a process by which permissible land and water uses having a direct and significant impact upon coastal waters can be defined; and ical areas of particular concern. Accomplishment of these tasks will put the State in a position to provide guidelines on priority of uses in particular areas and allow a State to complete development of its management program by the for consideration by the Secretary in end of the third year. States may propose alternate standards of accomplishment determining "satisfactory progress" toward completion of the management program. (3) Criteria for designating geograph [FR Doc.73-25362 Filed 11-28-73;8:45 am] |