90 STAT. 1016 V
PUBLIC LAW 94-370—JULY 26, 1976
.) paragraph (2), including a listing of relevant constitutional provisions, laws, regulations, and judicial decisions. "(5) Broad guidelines on priorities of uses in particular areas, including specifically those uses of lowest priority. "(6) A description of the organizational structure proposed to V implement such management program, including the responsibilities and interrelationships of local, areawade, state, regional, and interstate agencies in the management process. "(7) 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. " (8) A planning process for energy facilities likely to be located in, or which may significantly affect, the coastal zone, including, but not limited to, a process for anticipating and managing the impacts from such facilities. "(9) A planning process for (A) assessing the effects of shoreline erosion (however caused), and (B) studying and evaluating ways to control, or lessen the impact of, such erosion, and to restore areas adversely affected by such erosion. No management program is required to meet the requirements in para, graphs (7), (8), and (9) before October 1, 1978. "(c) The Secretary may make a grant annually to any coastal state for the purposes described in subsection (a)(1) if such state reason. ably demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such grant will be used to develop a management program consistent with the Post, p. 1017. requirements set forth in section 306. The amount of any such grant shall not exceed 80 per centum of such state's costs for such purposes in any one year. No coastal state is eligible to receive more than four grants pursuant to this subsection. After the initial grant is made to any coastal state pursuant to this subsection, no subsequent grant shall be made to such state pursuant to this subsection unless the Secretary finds that such state is satisfactorily developing its management program. "(d)(1) The Secretary may make a grant annually to any coastal state for the purposes described in subsection (a)(2) if the Secretary finds that such state meets the eligibility requirements set forth in ' paragraph (2). The amount of any such grant shall not exceed 80 per centum of the costs for such purposes in any one year. Eligibility. " (2) A coastal state is eligible to receive grants under this subsection if it has— " (A) developed a management program which— "(i) is in compliance with the rules and regulations promulgated to carry out subsection (b), but "(ii) has not yet been approved by the Secretary under section 306; "(B) specifically identified, after consultation with the Secretary, any deficiency in such program which makes it ineligible for approval by the Secretary pursuant to section 306, and has established a reasonable time schedule during which it can remedy any such deficiency; "(C) specified the purposes for which any such grant will be used; "(D) taken or is taking adequate steps to meet any requirePost, p. 1018. ment under section 306 or 307 which involves any Federal official or agency; and
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