[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR923.24]

[Page 200]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 923--COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C--Special Management Areas
 
Sec. 923.24  Shorefront access and protection planning.

    (a) The management program must include a definition of the term 
``beach'' and a planning process for the protection of, and access to, 
public beaches and other public coastal areas of environmental, 
recreational, historical, esthetic, ecological or cultural value.
    (b) The basic purpose in focusing special planning attention on 
shorefront access and protection is to provide public beaches and other 
public coastal areas of environmental, recreational, historic, esthetic, 
ecological or cultural value with special management attention within 
the purview of the State's management program. This special management 
attention may be achieved by designating public shorefront areas 
requiring additional access or protection as areas of particular concern 
pursuant to Sec. 923.21 or areas for preservation or restoration 
pursuant to Sec. 923.22.
    (c) The management program must contain a procedure for assessing 
public beaches and other public areas, including State owned lands, 
tidelands and bottom lands, which require access or protection, and a 
description of appropriate types of access and protection.
    (d) The management program must contain a definition of the term 
``beach'' that is the broadest definition allowable under state law or 
constitutional provisions, and an identification of public areas meeting 
that definition.
    (e) The management program must contain an identification and 
description of enforceable policies, legal authorities, funding program 
and other techniques that will be used to provide such shorefront access 
and protection that the State's planning process indicates is necessary.