An Act to establish a national policy and develop a national program for the management, beneficial use, protection, and development of the land and water resources of the Nation's coastal zones, and for other purposes
PL 92-583 (S.3507), enacted 10/27/1972

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Public Law 92-583 -y^q'^ri,vU u, . •>•( .. J|.-^.-; 'V-.. • 
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October 27, 1972 
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To establish a nutioiial policy and develop a national program for the manage-
ment, henetieial use, proteition, and development of the land and water 
resources of the Nation's coastal zones, and for other purposes. 
Be it eiidcfed hy the Senate and HouHe of Uepre^entdt'treH of the 
Marine Re- 
^ (^)i}te(I States of America in CongreHH (DineinhletL Thfit the Act entitled 
neering Devei"if-^ "All Act to pi'ovide foi' i\ (•onii)relioiisive, loiio-ranoe, and coordinated 
ment Act o
f 1966, iiatioiuil pro<>ram in marine science, to establish a National (^ouiicil on 
amendment. 
Marine Rcsources and Kn^ineerino- Development, and a Commission 
on Marine Science. En^iiieerin<>- and Resources, and for other pur-
poses'*, api)roved June 17. 1
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80 Stat. 998; 
1101-1124). is fui'tliei- amended by adding- at the end thereof the fol-
84 Stat. 865. 
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lo\viii<>- new title: 
T n LK III—.>LVXA()EMENT OF THE COASTAL ZOXP: 
SHOUT TITLK 
SKC. ;^01. This title may be cited as the "Coastal Zone ^Management 
Act of 1972". 
COXGUESSIOXAL riXDlXGS 
SEC. ')02. The (^ongress finds that— 
(a) There is a national interest in the etiective manaoement, bene-
ficial use, protection, and development of the coastal zone; 
(b) The coastal zone is rich in a variety of natnral, commercial, rec-
leational. industrial, and esthetic resoui'ces of immediate and potential 
\alue to tlie present and future well-being of the Nation ; 
(c) The increasing and com))eting demands upon the lands"and 
waters of our coastal zone occasioned by population growth and eco-
nomic develoi)ment. including re(iuiremeiits for industry, commerce, 
residential development, recreation, extraction of mineral resources 
and fossil fuels, transportation and navigation, waste disposal, and har-
vesting of fish, shellfish, and other living marine resoui'ces. have 
resulted in the loss of living marine resources, wildlife, nutrient-rich 
areas, permanent and adxerse changes to ecological systems, decreasing 
open space for public use, and shoreline erosion; 
(d) The coastal zone, and the fish, shellfish, other living marine 
resources, and wildlife therein, are ecologically fragile and conse-
(piently extremely vulnerable to destruction by man's alterations; 
(e) Important ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values in 
the coastal zone which are essential to the well-being of all citizens are 
being irretrievably damaged or lost; 
(f) Special natural and scenic characteristics are being damaged by 
ill-planned develo})ment that threatens these values; 
(g) In light of competing demands and the urgent need to protect 
and to give hioh ])riority to natural systems in the coastal zone, pres-
ent state and local institutional arrangements for planning and regu-
lating land and water uses in such areas are inade(iuate; and 
(h) The key to more effectiAe protection and use of the land and 
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Avater resources of the coastal zone is to encourage the states to exercise 
their full authority over the lands and waters in the coastal zone by 
assisting the states, in cooperation with Federal and local govei-nments 
and other vitally affected interests, in developing land and water use 
programs for the coastal zone, including unified policies, criteria, 
standards, methods, and processes for dealing with land and water 
use decisions of more than local significance. 
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DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SEC. 303. The Congress finds and declares that it is the national 
policy (a) to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore 
or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and 
succeeding generations, (b) to encourage and assist the states to exercise 
effectively their responsibilities in the coastal zone through the devel-
opment 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, (c) for all Federal agencies 
engaged in programs affecting the coastal zone to cooperate and par-
ticipate with state and local governments and regional agencies in 
effectuating the purposes of this title, and (d) to encourage the par-
ticipation of the public, of Federal, state, and local governments and 
of regional agencies in the development of coastal zone management 
programs. With respect to implementation of such managament pro-
grams, it is the national policy to encourage cooperation among the 
various state and regional agencies including establishment of inter-
state and regional agreements, cooperative procedures, and joint action 
particularly regarding environmental problems. 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 304. For the purposes of this title— 
(a) "Coastal zone" means the coastal waters (including the lands 
therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands (including the 
w^aters therein and thereunder), strongly influenced by each other and 
in proximity to the shorelines of the several coastal states, and includes 
transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands, and beaches. 
The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international bound-
ary between the United States and Canada and, in other areas, seaward 
to the outer limit of the United States territorial sea. The zone extends 
inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control 
shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on 
the coastal waters. Excluded from the coastal zone are lands the use 
of which is by law subject solely to the discretion of or which is held in 
trust by the Federal Government, its officers or agents. 
(b) "Coastal waters" means (1) in the Great Lakes area, the waters 
within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States consisting of 
the Great Lakes, their connecting waters, harbors, roadsteads, and 
estuary-type areas such as bays, shallows, and marshes and (2) in 
other areas, those waters, adjacent to the shorelines, which contain a 
measurable quantity or percentage of sea water, including, but not 
limited to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, ponds, and estuaries. 
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(c) "Coastal state" means a state of the United States in, or bor-
dering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, 
Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes. For the pur-
poses of this title, the term also includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. 
(d) "Estuary" means that part of a river or stream or other body 
of water having unimpaired connection with the open sea, where the 
sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from land 
drainage. The term includes estuary-type areas of the Great Lakes. 
(e) "Estuarine sanctuary" means a research area which may include 
any part or all of an estuary, adjoining transitional areas, and adja-
cent uplands, constituting to the extent feasible a natural unit, set 
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aside to provide scientists and students the opportunity to examine 
over a period of time the ecological relationships within the area. 
(f) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Commerce. 
(g) "Management program" includes, but is not limited to, a com-
prehensive statement in words, maps, illustrations, or other media of 
communication, prepared and adopted by the state in accordance with 
the provisions of this title, setting forth objectives, policies, and stand-
ards to guide public and private uses of lands and waters in the coastal 
zone. 
(h) "Water use" means activities which are conducted in or on the 
water; but does not mean or include the establishment of any water 
quality standard or criteria or the regulation of the discharge or rimoff 
of water pollutants except the standards, criteria, or regulations which 
are incorporated in any program as required by the provisions of 
section 307(f). 
(i) "Land use" means activities which are conducted in or on the 
shorelands within the coastal zone, subject to the requirements out-
lined in section 307(g). 
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MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 
SEC. 305. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make annual grants to 
any coastal state for the purpose of assisting in the development of a 
management program for the land and water resources of its coastal 
zone. 
(b) Such management program shall include: 
(1) an identification of the boundaries of the coastal zone sub-
ject to the management program; 
(2) a definition of what shall constitute permissible land and 
water uses within the coastal zone which have a direct and signifi-
cant impact on the coastal waters; 
(3) an inventory and designation of areas of particular con-
cern within the coastal zone; 
(4) an identification of the means by which the state proposes 
to exert control over the land and water uses referred to in para-
graph (2) of this subsection, including a listing of relevant con-
stitutional provisions, legislative enactments, regulations, and 
judicial decisions; 
(5) broad griidelines on priority of uses in particular areas, 
including specifically those uses of lowest priority; 
(6) a description of the organizational structure proposed to 
implement the management program, including the responsibili-
ties and interrelationships of local, areawide, state, regional, and 
interstate agencies in the management process. 
Limitation. 
^^^ rpj^g gpauts sliall uot excecd 66% per centum of the costs of the 
program in any one year and no state shall be eligible to receive more 
than three annual grants pursuant to this section. Federal funds 
received from otlier sources shall not be used to match such grants. In 
order to qualify for grants under this section, the state must reasonably 
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such grants will 
be used to develop a management program consistent with the require-
ments set forth in section 306 of this title. After making the initial 
grant to a coastal state, no subsequent grant shall be made under this 
section unless the Secretary finds that tlie state is satisfactorily devel-
oping: such management program. 
(d) Upon completion of the deve^lopment of the state's management 
program, the state shall submit such program to the Secretary for 
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review and approval pursuant to the provisions of section 306 of this 
title, or such other action as he deems necessary. On final approval of 
such program by the Secretary, the state's eligibility for further grants 
under this section shall terminate, and the state shall be eligible for 
grants under section 306 of this title. 
(e) Grants under this section shall be aiUocated to the states based 
on rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary: Provided^ 
however^ That no management program development grant under this 
section shall be made in excess of 10 per centum nor less than 1 per 
centum of the total amount appropriated to carry out the purposes of 
this section. 
(f) Grants or portions thereof not obligated by a state during the 
fiscal year for which they were first authorized to be obligated by the 
state, or during the fiscal year immediately following, shall revert to 
the Secretary, and shall be added by him to the funds available for 
grants under this section. 
(g) With the approval of the Secretary, the state may allocate to a 
local government, to an area 
wide agency designated under section 204 
of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 
1966, to a regional agency, or to an interstate agency, a portion of the 
grant under this section, for the purpose of carrying out the provi-
sions of this section. 
(h) The authority to make grants under this section shall expire on 
June 30,1977. 
ADMINISTRATIVE GRANTS 
SEC. 306. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make annual grants to 
any coastal state for not more than 66% per centum of the costs of 
administering the state's management program, if he approves such 
program in accordance with subsection (c) hereof. Federal funds 
received from other sources shall not be used to pay the state's share 
of costs. 
(b) Such grants shall be allocated to the states with approved pro-
grams based on rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary 
which shall take into account the extent and nature of the shoreline 
and area covered by the plan, population of the area, and other rele-
vant factors: Provided, however, That no annual administrative grant 
under this section shall be made in excess of 10 per centum nor less than 
1 per centum of the total amount appropriated to carry out the pur-
poses of this section. 
(c) Prior to granting approval of a management program submitted 
by a coastal state, the Secretary shall find that: 
(1) The state has developed and adopted a management program for 
its coastal zone in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated 
by the Secretary, after notice, and with the opportunity of full partici-
pation by relevant Federal agencies, state agencies, local governments, 
regional organizationSj port authorities, and other interested parties, 
public and private, which is adequate to carry out the purposes of this 
title and is consistent with the policy declared in section 303 of this 
title. 
(2) The state has: 
(A) coordinated its program with local, area 
wide, and inter-
state plans applicable to areas within the coastal zone existing on 
January 1 of the year in which the state's management program 
is submitted to the Secretary, which plans have been developed 
by a local government, an areawide agency designated pursuant to 
regulations established under section 204 of the Demonstration 
Grants, alloca-
tion. 
80 Stat. 1262; 
82 Stat. 208. 
42 u s e 3334. 
Expiration date. 
Limitation. 
Allocation. 
Program require-
ments. 
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80 Stat. 1262; 
Cltles and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, a regional 
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^S^^^Ji 01" ^n interstate agency; and 
(B) established an effective meclianism for continuing con-
sultation and coordination between the management agency desig-
nated pursuant to paragraph (5) of this subsection and \\'ith local 
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governments, interstate agencies, regional agencies, and areawide 
agencies within the coastal zone to assure the full participation 
of such local governments and agencies in carrying out the pur-
poses of this title. 
(3) The state has held public hearings in the development of the 
management program. 
(4) The management program and any changes thereto have been 
reviewed and approved by the Governor. 
(5) The Governor of the state has designated a single agency to 
receive and administer the grants for implementing the management 
program required under paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
(6) The state is organized to implement the management program 
required under paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
(7) The state has the authorities necessary to implement the pro-
gram, including the authority required under subsection (d) of this 
section. 
(8) The management program provides for adequate consideration 
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of the national interest involved m the siting of facilities necessary 
to meet requirements which are other than local in nature. 
(9) The management program makes provision for procedures 
whereby specific areas may be designated for the purpose of preserv-
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lYig or restoring them for their conservation, recreational, ecological, 
or esthetic values. 
(d) Prior to granting approval of the management program, the 
Secretary shall find that the state, acting through its chosen agency or 
agencies, including local governments, areawide agencies designated 
under section 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan 
Development Act of 1966, regional agencies, or interstate agencies, has 
authority for the management of the coastal zone in accordance with 
the management program. Such authority shall include power— 
(1) to administer land and water use regulations, control devel-
opment in order to ensure compliance with the management pro-
gram, and to resolve conflicts among competing uses; and 
(2) to acquire fee simple and less than fee simple interests in 
lands, waters, and other property through condemnation or other 
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means when necessary to achieve conformance with the manage-
ment program. 
(e) Prior to granting approval, the Secretary shall also find that 
the program provides: 
(1) for any one or a combination of the following general tech-
niques for control of land and water uses within the coastal zone ; 
(A) State establishment of criteria and standards for local 
implementation, subject to administrative review and enforce-
ment of compliance ; 
(B) Direct state land and water use planning and regula-
tion : or 
(C) State administrative review for consistency with the 
management program of all development plans, projects, or 
land and water use regulations, including exceptions and 
variances thereto, proposed by any state or local authority or 
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private developer, with power to approve or disapprove after 
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public notice and an opportunity for hearings. 
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(2) for a method of assuring that local land and water use 
regulations within the coastal zone do not unreasonably restrict 
or exclude land and water uses of regional benefit. 
(f) With the approval of the Secretary, a state may allocate to a 
local government, an areawide agency designated under section 204 
of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 
1966, a regional agency, or an interstate agency, a portion of the grant 
under this section for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this 
section: Provldexl^ That such allocation shall not relieve the state of 
the responsibility for ensuring that any funds so allocated are applied 
in furtherance of such state's approved management program. 
(g) The state shall be authorized to amend the management pro-
gram. The modification shall be in accordance with the procedures 
required under subsection (c) of this section. Any amendment or 
modification of the program must be approved by the Secretary before 
additional administrative grants are made to the state under the pro-
gram as amended. 
(h) At the discretion of the state and with the approval of the 
Secretary, a management program may be developed and adopted in 
segments so that immediate attention may be devoted to those areas 
within the coastal zone which most urgently need management pro-
grams : Provided^ That the state adequately provides for the ultimate 
coordination of the various segments of the management program into 
a single unified program and that the unified program will be com-
pleted as soon as is reasonably practicable. 
80 Stat. 1262; 
82 Stat. 208. 
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Program 
modification. 
Segmental devel-
opment. 
INTERAGENCY COORDINATION AND COOPERATION 
SEC. 307. (a) In carrying out his functions and responsibilities 
under this title, the Secretary shall consult with, cooperate with, and, 
to the maximum extent practicable, coordinate his activities with 
other interested Federal agencies. 
(b) The Secretary shall not approve the management program sub-
mitted by a state pursuant to section 306 unless the views of Federal 
agencies principally affected by such program have been adequately 
considered. In case of serious disagreement between any Federal 
agency and the state in the development of the program the Secre-
tary, in cooperation with the Executive Office of the President, shall 
seek to mediate the differences. 
(c) (1) Each Federal agency conducting or supporting activities 
directly affecting the coastal zone shall conduct or support those 
activities in a manner which is, to the maximum extent practicable, 
consistent with approved state management programs. 
(2) Any Federal agency which shall undertake any development 
project in the coastal zone of a state shall insure that the project is, 
to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with approved state 
management programs. 
(3) After final approval by the Secretary of a state's management 
program, any applicant for a required Federal license or permit to 
conduct an activity affecting land or water uses in the coastal zone of 
that state shall provide in the application to the licensing or permit-
ting agency a certification that the proposed activity complies with 
the state's appr-oved program and that such activity will be conducted 
in a manner consistent with the program. At the same time, the appli-
cant shall furnish to the state or its designated agency a copy of 
the certification, with all necessary information and data. Each coastal 
state shall establish procedures for public notice in the case of all such 
Certification. 
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Notification. 
42 use 4231. 
Ante, p. 816. 
81 Stat. 485; 
84 Stat. 1676. 
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note. 
certifications and, to the extent it deems appropriate, procedures for 
public hearings in connection therewith. At the earliest practicable 
time, the state or its designated agency shall notify the Federal agency 
concerned that the state concurs with or objects to the applicant's 
certification. If the state or its designated agency fails to furnish the 
required notification within six months after receipt of its copj^ of the 
applicant's certification, the state's concurrence with the certification 
shall be conclusively presumed. No license or permit shall be granted 
by the Federal agency until the state or its designated agency has con-
curred with the applicant's certification or until, by the state's failure 
to act, the concurrence is conclusively presumed, unless the Secretary, 
on his own initiative or upon appeal by the applicant, finds, after pro-
viding a reasonable opportunity for detailed comments from the Fed-
eral agency involved and from the state, that the activity is consistent 
with the objectives of this title or is otherwise necessary in the interest 
of national security. 
(d) State and local governments submitting applications for Fed-
eral assistance under other Federal programs affecting the coastal zone 
shall indicate the views of the appropriate state or local agency as to 
the relationship of such activities to the approved management pro-
gram for the coastal zone. Such applications shall be submitted and 
coordinated in accordance with the provisions of title IV of the Inter-
governmental Coordination Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1098). Federal agen-
cies shall not approve proposed projects that are inconsistent with a 
coastal state's management program, except upon a finding by the 
Secretary that such project is consistent with the purposes of this title 
or necessary in the interest of national security. 
(e) Nothing in this title shall be construed— 
(1) to diminish either Federal or state jurisdiction, responsi-
bility, or rights in the field of planning, development, or control 
of water resources, submerged lands, or navigable waters; nor to 
displace, supersede, limit, or modify any interstate compact or the 
jurisdiction or responsibility of any legally established joint or 
common agency of two or more states or of two or more states and 
the Federal Government; nor to limit the authority of Congress 
to authorize and fund projects; 
(2) as superseding, modifying, or repealing existing laws appli-
cable to the various Federal agencies; nor to affect the jurisdiction, 
powers, or prerogatives of the International Joint Commission, 
United States and Canada, the Permanent Engineering Board, 
and the United States operating entity or entities established pur-
suant to the Columbia River Basin Treaty, signed at Washington, 
January 17,1961, or the International Boundary and Water Com-
mission, United States and Mexico. 
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, nothing in this 
title shall in any way affect any requirement (1) established by the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or the Clean Air 
Act, as amended, or (2) established by the Federal Government or by 
any state or local government pursuant to such Acts. Such require-
ments shall be incorporated in any program developed pursuant to 
this title and shall be the water pollution control and air pollution 
control requirements applicable to such program. 
(g) When any state's coastal zone management program, submitted 
for approval or proposed for modification pursuant to section 306 of 
this title, includes requirements as to shorelands which also would be 
subject to any Federally supported national land use program which 
may be hereafter enacted, the Secretary, prior to approving such pro-
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gram, shall obtain the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, or 
such other Federal official as may be designated to administer the 
national land use program, with respect to that portion of the coastal 
zone management program affecting such inland areas. 
PUBLIC HEARINGS 
SEC. 308. All public hearings required under this title must be 
unnoimced at least thirty days prior to the hearing date. At the time 
of the announcement, all agency materials pertinent to the hearings, 
including documents, studies, and other data, must be made available 
to the public for review and study. As similar materials are subse-
quently developed, they shall be made available to the public as they 
become available to the agency. 
REVIEW OF PERFORMANCE 
SEC. O09. (a) The Secretary shall conduct a continuing review of 
the management programs of the coastal states and of the performance 
of each state. 
(b) The Secretary shall have the authority to terminate any financial as^si"tance^ ter-
assistance extended under section 306 and to withdraw any unexpended mination. 
portion of such assistance if (1) he determines that the state is failing 
to adhere to and is not justified in deviating from the program 
approved by the Secretary; and (2) the state has been given notice 
of the proposed termination and withdrawal and given an opportunity 
to present evidence of adherence or justification for altering its 
program. 
RECORDS 
SEC. 310. (a) Each recipient of a grant under this title shall keep 
such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which 
fully disclose the amount and disposition of the funds received under 
the grant, the total cost of the project or undertaking supplied by 
other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective 
audit. 
(b) The Secretary and the Comptroller General of the United 
Audit. 
States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have 
access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, docu-
ments, papers, and records of the recipient of the grant that are perti-
nent to the determination that funds granted are used in accordance 
with this title. 
AD\aSOKY COMMITTEE 
SEC. 311. (a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish Ma^°^e*mi:^°Ad-
a Coastal Zone jNIanagement Advisory Committee to advise, consult vfs'ory^c^ommittJe 
with, and make recommendations to the Secretary on matters of policy establishment; 
concerning the coastal zone. Such committee shall be composed of not '"^'"'^^''^^^P-
more than fifteen persons designated by the Secretary and shall per-
form such functions and operate in such a manner as the Secretary 
may direct. The Secretary shall insure that the committee member-
ship as a group possesses a broad range of experience and knowledge 
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relating to problems involving management, use, conservation, pro-
tection, and development of coastal zone resources. 
(b) Members of the committee who are not regular full-time tra^eT^e^pe^nte"'. 
employees of the United States, while serving on the business of the 
committee, including traveltime, may receive compensation at rates 
not exceeding $100 per diem; and while so serving away from their 
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homes or regular places of business may be allowed travel expenses, 
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 
80 Stat. 499; 
5703 of title 5, United States Code, for individuals in the Govern-
83 Stat. 190. 
ment service employed intermittently. 
ESTUARIlSrE SANCTUARIES 
Grants. 
SEC. 312. The Secretary, in accordance with rules and regulations 
promulgated by him, is authorized to make available to a coastal state 
grants of up to 50 per centum of the costs of acquisition, development, 
and operation of estuarine sanctuaries for the purpose of creating 
natural field laboratories to gather data and make studies of the 
natural and human processes occurring within the estuaries of the 
Federal share, 
coastal zouc. The Federal share of the cost for each such sanctuary 
shall not exceed $2,000,000. No Federal funds received pursuant to 
section 305 or section 306 shall be used for the purpose of this section. 
A N N U A L 
REPORT 
SEC. 313. (a) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Presi-
dent for transmittal to the Congress not later than November 1 of each 
year a report on the administration of this title for the preceding fiscal 
year. The report shall include but not be restricted to (1) an identifi-
cation of the state programs approved pursuant to this title during 
the preceding Federal fiscal year and a description of those programs; 
(2) a listing of the states participating in the provisions of this title 
and a description of the status of each state's programs and its accom-
plishments during the preceding Federal fiscal year; (3) an itemiza-
tion of the allocation of funds to the various coastal states and a 
breakdown of the major projects and areas on which these funds were 
expended; (4) an identification of any state programs which have been 
reviewed and disapproved or with respect to w i c h grants have been 
terminated under this title, and a statement of the reasons for such 
action; (5) a listing of all activities and projects which, pursuant to 
the provisions of subsection (c) or subsection (d) of section 307, are 
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not consistent with an applicable approved state management pro-
gram; (6) a summary of the regulations issued by the Secretary or in 
effect during the preceding Federal fiscal year; (7) a summary of a 
coordinated national strategy and program for the Nation's coastal 
zone including identification and discussion of Federal, regional, state, 
and local responsibilities and functions therein; (8) a summary oi 
outstanding problems arising in the administration of this title in 
order of priority; and (9) such other information as may be appro-
priate. 
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall contain such recom-
mendations for additional legislation as the Secretary deems necessary 
to achieve the objectives of this title and enhance its effective operation. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
SEC. 314. The Secretary shall develop and promulgate, pursuant 
80 Stat. 383. 
^Q section 553 of title 5, United States Code, after notice and oppor-
tunity for full participation by relevant Federal agencies, state 
agencies, local governments, regional organizations, port authorities, 
and other interested parties, both public and private, such rules and 
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
title. 
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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 315. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated— 
(1) the sum of $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1973, and for each of the fiscal years 1974 through 1977 for grants 
under section 305, to remain available until expended; 
(2) such sums, not to exceed $30,000,000, for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1974, and for each of the fiscal years 1975 through 
1977, as may be necessary, for grants under section 306 to remain 
available until expended; and 
(3) such sums, not to exceed $6,000,000 for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1974, as may be necessary, for grants under section 
312, to remain available until expended. 
(b) There are also authorized to Ibe appropriated such sums, not to 
exceed $3,000,000, for fiscal year 1973 and for each of the four succeed-
ing fiscal years, as may be necessary for administrative expenses 
incident to the administration of this title. 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
Public Law 92-584 
AN ACT 
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
October 27, 1972 
[H. R. 8273] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 301 (b) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401) is amended 
to read as follows: 
"(b) Any person who is a national and citizen of the United States 
under paragraph (T) of subsection (a) shall lose his nationality and 
citizenship unless—(1) he shall come to the United States and be con-
tinuously physically present therein for a period of not less than two 
years between the ages of fourteen years and twenty-eight years; or 
(2) the alien parent is naturalized while the child is under the age of 
eighteen years and the child begins to reside permanently in the United 
States while under the age of eighteen years. In the administration of 
this subsection absences from the United States of less than sixty days 
in the aggregate during the period for which continuous physical pres-
ence in the United States is required shall not break the continuity of 
such physical presence." 
SEC. 2. Section 16 of the Act of September 11, 1957, is hereby 
repealed. 
SEC. 3. Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act is 
amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (d) to read as 
follows: 
"(d) Nothing contained in subsection (b), as amended, shall be 
construed to alter or affect the citizenship of any person who has 
come to the United States prior to the effective date of this subsection 
and who, whether before or after the effective date of this subsection, 
immediately following such coming complies or shall comply with 
the physical presence requirements for retention of citizenship speci-
fied in subsection (b) prior to its amendment and the repeal of section 
16 of the Act of September 11,1957." 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
Immigration and 
Nationality Act, 
amendment. 
66 Stat. 235. 
Citizens born 
abroad, res-idence 
requirements. 
Repeal. 
71 Stat. 644. 
8 u s e 1401b. 
Supra