Defenders' Experts
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1972
(16 U.S.C. 1451 to 1464)
This Act establishes an extensive federal grant program within the Department of Commerce to encourage coastal states to develop and implement coastal zone management programs. Activities that affect coastal zones must be consistent with approved state programs. The Act also establishes a national estuarine reserve system.
PURPOSE
"The Congress finds and declares that it is the national policy to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations..."
LINKS
Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
