Coastal Zone Management Act: The Congressional Plan for Managing America's Coasts. 1995 Congressional Briefing Book

摘要

Since 1970, the Coastal States Organization has served as the Governor's official representative for ocean, coastal and Great Lakes affairs of the United States. Endorsed by the National Governor's association, the Coastal States Organization is the States' leading advocate or sound coastal, Great Lakes and ocean resource management, protection and development efforts nationwide. Their broad-based information and data gathering network, coordinated through the CSO Washington Office, provides answers to questions about U.S. coastal practice and policy, the States' role in federal offshore energy activities, territorial sea claims, coastal hazards planning and management, wetlands, fisheries development and management, port and waterfront restoration, oil spill response, flood insurance, historic shipwrecks, the National Marine Sanctuary System, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, and other important coastal resource issues affecting the United States.