[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: 15CFR923.58]

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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 F_Coordination, Public Involvement and National Interest
 
Sec. 923.58  Public hearings.

    The management program must be developed and adopted after the 
holding of public hearings. A State must:
    (a) Hold a minimum of two public hearings during the course of 
program development, at least one of which will be on the total scope of 
the coastal management program. Hearings on the total management program 
do not have to be held on the actual document submitted to the Assistant 
Administrator for section 306 approval. However, such hearing(s) must 
cover the substance and content of the proposed management program in 
such a manner that the general public, and particularly affected 
parties, have a reasonable opportunity to understand the impacts of the 
management program. If the hearing(s) are not on the management document 
per se, all requests for such document must be honored and comments on 
the document received prior to submission of the document to the 
Assistant Administrator must be considered;
    (b) Provide a minimum of 30 days public notice of hearing dates and 
locations;
    (c) Make available for public review, at the time of public notice, 
all agency materials pertinent to the hearings; and
    (d) Include a transcript or summary of the public hearing(s) with 
the State's program document or submit same within thirty (30) days 
following submittal of the program to the Assistant Administrator. At 
the same time this transcript or summary is submitted to the Assistant 
Administrator, it must be made available, upon request, to the public.