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handle is hein.crs/crsahhy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS20498 March 14, 2000 Coastal Zone Management Reauthorization: An Overview Jeffrey A. Zinn Senior Analyst in Natural Resource Policy Resources, Science, and Industry Division Summary Congress is considering legislation that would reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. This overview summarizes the programs created by this act and its amendments, and outlines issues associated with reauthorization. These issues include reauthorizing funding, altering grant programs, changing the National Estuarine Research Reserve system, funding to implement nonpoint water pollution requirements, protecting private property rights, expanding program evaluation efforts, and examining effects of personal water craft on the coastal environment. A reauthorization bill has been reported by the House Resources Committee ( H.R. 2669, H. Rept. 106-485), and floor action is anticipated soon. In the Senate, no action has been taken. This report will be updated as events warrant. Introduction This country's coastal zone is only 11% of the Nation's area, but it is home to about half the country's population and jobs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is also home to many valuable and productive natural resources, including coastal wetlands, beaches, and estuaries. The federal Coastal Zone Management Program (CZM), created under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) (P.L. 92-583; 16 USC 1451 et. seq.), provides grants to coastal states and territories to develop and implement plans that coordinate overall development and resource protection activities in their coastal zones. These grants are one incentive to participate. A second incentive is the law's consistency provision that requires all federal actions in or affecting the coastal zone to be consistent with the federally-approved state plans. These incentives seem to be working because 33 of the 35 eligible states and territories are implementing federally-approved plans. One of the remaining states, Indiana, is developing a program, while the other state, Illinois, is inactive. NOAA in the Department of Commerce administers this program. Congress has reauthorized the CZMA five times since 1972. The most recent reauthorization, enacted in 1996 (P.L. 104-150), expired at the end of FY1999. This uncontroversial legislation was limited to the three year reauthorization; it passed both Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web

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