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 94 STAT. 2060

PUBLIC LAW 96-464—OCT. 17, 1980

Public Law 96-464 96th Congress An Act Oct. 17, 1980 [S. 2622]

Coastal Zone Management

rj,^ improve coastal zone management in the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cjted as the "Coastal Zone Management Improvement Act of 1980".

Improvement

Act of 1980

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

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Section 302 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451) is amended— (1) by inserting immediately after subsection (e) the following: "(f) New and expanding demands for food, energy, minerals, defense needs, recreation, waste disposal, transportation, and industrial activities in the Great Lakes, territorial sea, and Outer Continental Shelf are placing stress on these areas and are creating the need for resolution of serious conflicts among important and competing uses and values in coastal and ocean waters;"; and (2) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) as subsections (g), (h), (i), and (j), respectively. SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF POLICY.

Section 303 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1452) is amended to read as follows: "CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF POLICY

"SEC. 303. The Congress finds and declares that it is the national policy— "(1) to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations; "(2) to encourage and assist the states to exercise effectively their responsibilities in the coastal zone through the development and implementation of management programs to achieve wise use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone, giving full consideration to ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values as well as to needs for economic development, which programs should at least provide for— (A) the protection of natural resources, including wetlands, floodplains, estuaries, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, coral reefs, and fish and wildlife and their habitat, within the coastal zone, "(B) the management of coastal development to minimize the loss of life and property caused by improper development in flood-prone, storm surge, geological hazard, and erosionprone areas and in areas of subsidence and saltwater intrusion, and by the destruction of natural protective features such as beaches, dunes, wetlands, and barrier islands. "(C) priority consideration being given to coastal-dependent uses and orderly processes for siting major facilities

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