16 USC 459f-11 - Comprehensive plan for protection, management, and use of seashore

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§ 459f–11.

Comprehensive plan for protection, management, and use of seashore

(a)

Contents; transmittal to Congressional committees

Within two years of October 21, 1976, the Secretary shall develop and transmit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a comprehensive plan for the protection, management, and use of the seashore, to include but not be limited to the following considerations:

(1)

measures for the full protection and management of the natural resources and natural ecosystems of the seashore;

(2)

present and proposed uses of the seashore and the lands and waters adjacent or related thereto, the uses of which would reasonably be expected to influence the administration, use, and environmental quality of the seashore;

(3)

plans for the development of facilities necessary and appropriate for visitor use and enjoyment of the seashore, with identification of resource and user carrying capacities, along with the anticipated costs for all proposed development;

(4)

plans for visitor transportation systems integrated and coordinated with lands and facilities adjacent to, but outside of, the seashore; and

(5)

plans for fostering the development of cooperative agreements and land and resource use patterns outside the seashore which would be compatible with the protection and management of the seashore.

(b)

Consultation by other Federal agencies with Secretary

(Pub. L. 89–195, § 12, as added Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 301, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2733.)

cite as: 16 USC 459f-11