CFR > Title 15 - Commerce and Foreign Trade > SUBTITLE B—Regulations Relating to Commerce and Foreign Trade > CHAPTER IX—NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (parts 902 to 996) > SUBCHAPTER B—OCEAN AND COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (parts 921 to 932) > PART 923—COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REGULATIONS > SUBPART B—Uses Subject to Management (§923.10 to §923.13) > 923.12—Uses of regional benefit.

923.12—Uses of regional benefit.

The management program must contain a method of assuring that local land use and water use regulations within the coastal zone do not unreasonably restrict or exclude land uses and water uses of regional benefit. To this end, the management program must:
(a) Identify what constitutes uses of regional benefit; and
(b) Identify and utilize any one or a combination of methods, consistent with the control techniques employed by the State, to assure local land and water use regulations do not unreasonably restrict or exclude uses of regional benefit.

Code of Federal Regulations

[61 FR 33806, June 28, 1996; 61 FR 36965, July 15, 1996]