[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR923.1]

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                  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 A_General
 
Sec. 923.1  Purpose and scope.

    Source: 61 FR 33805, June 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) The regulations in this part set forth the requirements for 
State coastal management program approval by the Assistant Administrator 
for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management pursuant to the Coastal 
Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended (hereafter, the Act); the grant 
application procedures for program funds; conditions under which grants 
may be terminated; and requirements for review of approved management 
programs.
    (b) Sections 306 and 307 of the Act set forth requirements which 
must be fulfilled as a condition of program approval. The specifics of 
these requirements are set forth below under the following headings: 
General Requirements; Uses Subject to Management; Special Management 
Areas; Boundaries; Authorities and Organization; and Coordination, 
Public Involvement and National Interest. All relevant sections of the 
Act are dealt with under one of these groupings, but not necessarily in 
the order in which they appear in the Act.
    (c) In summary, the requirements for program approval are that a 
State develop a management program that:
    (1) Identifies and evaluates those coastal resources recognized in 
the Act as requiring management or protection by the State;
    (2) Reexamines existing policies or develops new policies to manage 
these resources. These policies must be specific, comprehensive, and 
enforceable;
    (3) Determines specific use and special geographic areas that are to 
be subject to the management program, based on the nature of identified 
coastal concerns;
    (4) Identifies the inland and seaward areas subject to the 
management program;
    (5) Provides for the consideration of the national interest in the 
planning for and siting of facilities that meet more than local 
requirements;
    (6) Includes sufficient legal authorities and organizational 
arrangements

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to implement the program and to ensure conformance to it. In arriving at 
these elements of the management program, States are obliged to follow 
an open process which involves providing information to and considering 
the interests of the general public, special interest groups, local 
governments, and regional, State, interstate, and Federal agencies;
    (7) Provides for public participation in permitting processes, 
consistency determinations, and other similar decisions;
    (8) Provides a mechanism to ensure that all state agencies will 
adhere to the program; and
    (9) Contains enforceable policies and mechanisms to implement the 
applicable requirements of the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control 
Program of the state required by section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act 
Reauthorization Amendments of 1990.