[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4797 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4797

  To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require that a 
   State having an approved coastal zone management program must be 
  provided a copy of an environmental impact statement to enable its 
review under that Act of any plan for exploration or development of, or 
      production from, any area in the coastal zone of the State.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 10, 1998

   Mr. Goss introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require that a 
   State having an approved coastal zone management program must be 
  provided a copy of an environmental impact statement to enable its 
review under that Act of any plan for exploration or development of, or 
      production from, any area in the coastal zone of the State.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``OCS Environmental Consistency Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT STATE HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT TO 
              REVIEW PLAN FOR EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OR PRODUCTION 
              IN THE COASTAL ZONE OF THE STATE.

    Section 307(c)(3) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 1456(c)(3)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(C) For purposes of subparagraph (B), a State shall not be 
considered to have received all necessary data and information with 
respect to a plan for exploration, development, or production, before 
the date the State has received a copy of an environmental impact 
statement under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) that applies to that exploration, 
development, or production.''.
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