16 U.S.C. § 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 must write and send to the House and Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committees a comprehensive plan for protecting, managing, and using the seashore. The plan must include, at least: (1) measures to fully protect and manage the seashore's natural resources and ecosystems; (2) current and proposed uses of the seashore and nearby land and water that would reasonably affect how the seashore is run, used, or how its environment is protected; (3) plans for visitor facilities, including how many resources and visitors the area can handle, and the expected costs of any development; (4) plans for visitor transportation systems that connect with land and facilities near, but outside, the seashore; and (5) plans for encouraging cooperative agreements and land-use patterns outside the seashore that fit with protecting and managing it. (b) Consultation by other Federal agencies with Secretary: Regardless of any other law, no federal agency can make, issue, or approve a loan, grant, license, or other assistance for a project that the Secretary believes would significantly hurt the seashore's administration, use, or environmental quality, without first consulting the Secretary. That consultation must check whether the project fits the plan from subsection (a), and the Secretary must get at least 30 days to comment on it in writing.