The State - News from Aug. 9, 1987

Legislation introduced by 16 House of Representatives members would give coastal states more power over activities significantly affecting their coastlines and overturn the effects of a Supreme Court ruling. The bill requires that federal activities directly affecting a coastal zone be consistent with a state’s coastal management plan. The measure could have the effect of overturning a 1984 Supreme Court decision in a California case that requires federal offshore activities544501536management plan only in the 3-mile coastal zone and not onshore or further out to sea. The bill would require that all federal activities that affect the coastal zone be consistent with the state plan, regardless where they occur.