California coastal zone management program

See also 3 and 4 above, concerning whether a negative determination or a consistency determination is required. You may need a CCC-issued coastal development permit for a "private activity on federal land" typical example: a cellular tower for a communications company on a federal military base. The Coastal Zone Management Act CZMA excludes from its definition of the coastal zone "lands the use of which by law is subject solely to the discretion of or which is held in trust by the Federal Government.

If a federal agency leases land to a private party, the exclusion based on "subject solely to the discretion of the federal agency" may disappear and the activity may be considered to be "within the coastal zone" for purposes of CCC coastal development permit review. If the project is within the coastal zone but on federal land, contact the CCC office for your district. If the project is both inside and outside the coastal zone, or fully outside the coastal zone, contact the CCC's federal consistency coordinator contact information below.

A Federal agency may use its NEPA documents as a vehicle for its consistency determination or negative determination under this subpart. However, a Federal agency's federal consistency obligations under the Act are independent of those required under NEPA and are not necessarily fulfilled by the submission of a NEPA document. If a Federal agency includes its consistency determination or negative determination in a NEPA document, the Federal agency shall ensure that the NEPA document includes the information and adheres to the timeframes required by this subpart.

Federal agencies and State agencies should mutually agree on how to best coordinate the requirements of NEPA and the Act. No, you only need to analyze those policies applicable to the proposal. For advice on which policies to analyze, contact the CCC's federal consistency coordinator contact information below.

There is no fee for a consistency determination submitted by a federal agency for a federal agency activity. There is a fee for a consistency certification submitted by an applicant for federal permits. The fee is the same as the Commission requires for coastal development permits. You may use any format you choose, as long as the information requirements are satisfied. Once a Coastal Commission-reviewed coastal development permit has been issued, that permit automatically satisfies federal consistency, and no further submittal is needed.

You will need CCC concurrence with a consistency certification or a CCC staff-issued waiver of the federal consistency provisions. In many instances where local permits are appealable to the CCC which is often the case for activities needing Corps of Engineers permits , the federal consistency unit will issue a waiver.

If you seek such a waiver, you should submit a map, project description, and local government permit conditions and findings or a timetable for local government review if it has not been completed to the CCC's federal consistency coordinator contact information below.

Instead, it will maintain an existing procedure used by the Commission which requires federal consistency review of the activity before a NWP can apply to a specific activity. Depending on the circumstances, the Commission can either waive consistency certification or require a consistency certification. Therefore, you will need evidence of compliance with the CCMP, as described in the answer to the previous two questions.

This applies even for "non-reporting" NWPs that do not require notification to the Corps of Engineers. Probably not; activities consistent with a certified Port Master Plan are "deemed consistent". In , the Legislature made the commission a permanent state agency.

To get an appropriate-sized house for the neighborhood, square feet or so--would have required a tall, narrow box, instead of a house that stepped gently down the hillside. It would have blocked ocean views from the street.

Move from hillside to hilltop or vice versa, and the tailoring--window placement, shading, landscape issues, the siting of the house on the land--changes completely.

The city wanted each coastal project to be individually reviewed, instead of subject to the blanket commission-approved LCP. So, for the foreseeable future, it looks like architects doing small coastal projects on sensitive sites in San Diego may find tough sledding.

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