My project is located on federal land and is not a federal agency project. Do I still need a federal consistency review, even though federal land is treated as “excluded from the coastal zone” ?
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.” (15 USC 1453(1)). 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 (district contact information can be found at http://www.coastal.ca.gov/address.html.) If the project is both inside and outside the coastal zone, or fully outside the coastal zone, contact the CCC’s federal con
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