ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the history of the Coastal Zone Management Act and of selected state coastal management authorities, the numerous and often critical assessments of the national program, amendments to the Act, and a look to the future. It explains a Legislative-Political History of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) of 1972, Zigurds L. Zile provides an enlightened description of federal involvement in Coastal Management. The recreation phase began with a 1934 survey of coastal areas of highest recreational value, and continued through the National Seashore and National Lakeshore Programs of 1937 to the Land and Water Conservation Program of 1964. The land use policy is intermingled in the oceans development phase and gives CZMA the context of coastal zone as "an integral part of the entire land mass." The land use bills also had impacts on CZMA which proved to be beneficial to the coastal zone management effort.
