What is the California Coastal Management Program (CCMP)?
Coastal States prepare Coastal Management Programs under the Coastal Zone Management Act, which Congress enacted in 1972 to encourage coastal states to develop comprehensive programs to manage and balance competing uses of and impacts to coastal resources. Once the federal government approves a state’s Coastal Management Program (CMP), that state gains federal consistency review authority. California’s CMP was federally approved in 1977 and contains two designated coastal zone management agencies that implement the federal consistency provisions: (1) the California Coastal Commission (CCC) for all coastal areas outside San Francisco Bay; and (2) the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) for the coastal areas in San Francisco Bay. (The CCMP also includes the California Coastal Conservancy, ‘which purchases, protects, restores, and enhances coastal resources, and provides access to the shore’.) For federal consistency activities that the CCC reviews, the most i
