[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR923.2]



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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. 923.2  Definitions.



    (a) The term Act means the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as 

amended.

    (b) The term Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce and his/her 

designee.

    (c) The term Assistant Administrator means the Assistant 

Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management, National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or designee.

    (d)(1) The term relevant Federal agencies means those Federal 

agencies with programs, activities, projects, regulatory, financing, or 

other assistance responsibilities in the following fields which could 

impact or affect a State's coastal zone:

    (i) Energy production or transmission,

    (ii) Recreation of a more than local nature,

    (iii) Transportation,

    (iv) Production of food and fiber,

    (v) Preservation of life and property,

    (vi) National defense,

    (vii) Historic, cultural, aesthetic, and conservation values,

    (viii) Mineral resources and extraction, and

    (ix) Pollution abatement and control.

    (2) The following are defined as relevant Federal agencies: 

Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce; Department of 

Defense; Department of Education; Department of Energy; Department of 

Health and Human Services; Department of Housing and Urban Development; 

Department of the Interior; Department of Transportation; Environmental 

Protection Agency; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; General 

Services Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Federal 

Emergency Management Agency.

    (e) The term Federal agencies principally affected means the same as 

``relevant Federal agencies.'' The Assistant Administrator may include 

other agencies for purposes of reviewing the management program and 

environmental impact statement.

    (f) The term Coastal State means a State of the United States in, or 

bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of 

Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes. Pursuant 

to section 304(3) of the Act, the term also includes Puerto Rico, the 

Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Pursuant to section 703 of the 

Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 

Political Union with the United States of America, the term also 

includes the Northern Marianas.

    (g) The term management program includes, but is not limited to, a 

comprehensive statement in words, maps, illustrations, or other media of 

communication, including an articulation of enforceable policies and 

citation of authorities providing this enforceability, prepared and 

adopted by the State in accordance with the provisions of this Act and 

this part, setting forth objectives, policies, and standards to guide 

public and private uses of lands and waters in the coastal zone.

    (h) The following terms, as used in these regulations, have the same 

definition as provided in section 304 of the Act:

    (1) Coastal zone;

    (2) Coastal waters;

    (3) Enforceable policy;

    (4) Estuary;

    (5) Land use; and

    (6) Water use.



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    (i) The term grant means a financial assistance instrument and 

refers to both grants and cooperative agreements.