2130
16 USC 1451
note
33 USC 403.
eonditions.
Removal requirements.
PUBLIC LAW 93-627-JAN. 3, 1975
[88 STAT.
views on the adequacy of the application, and its effect on programs within their respective jurisdictions; (9) the Governor of the adjacent coastal State or States, pursuant to section 9 of this Act, approves, or is presumed to approve, issuance of the license; and (10) the adjacent coastal State to which the deep water port is to be directly connected by pipeline has developed, or is making, at the time the application is submitted, reasonable progress, as determined in accordance with section 9(c) of this Act, toward developing, an approved coastal zone management program pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. (d) If an application is made under this Act for a license to construct a deepwater port facility off the coast of a State, and a port of the State which will be directly connected by pipeline with such deepwater port, on the date of such application— (1) has existing plans for construction of a deep draft channel and harbor; and (2) has either (A) an active study by the Secretary of the Army relating to the construction of a deep draft channel and harbor, or (B) a pending application for a permit under section iQ of ^j^g,^(,^ of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1121), for such construction; and (3) applies to the Secretary for a determination under this section within 30 days of the date of the license application; the Secretary shall not issue a license under this Act until he has examined and compared the economic, social, and environmental effects of the construction and operation of the deepwater port with the economic, social and environmental effects of the construction, expansion, deepening, and operation of such State port, and has determined which project best serves the national interest or that both developments are warranted. The Secretary's determination shall be discretionary and nonre viewable. ^Q^ (^2^ jjj issuing a license for the ownership, construction, and operation of a deepwater port, the Secretary shall prescribe any conditions which he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, or which are otherwise required by any Federal department or agency pursuant to the terms of this Act. (2) No license shall be issued, transferred, or renewed under this Act unless the licensee or transferee first agrees in writing that (A) there will be no substantial change from the plans, operational systems, and methods, procedures, and safeguards set forth in his application, as approved, without prior approval in writing from the Secretary; and (B) he will comply with any condition the Secretary may prescribe in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (3) The Secretary shall establish such bonding requirements or other assurances as he deems necessary to assure that, upon the revocation or termination of a license, the licensee will remove all components of the deepwater port. In the case of components lying in the subsoil below the seabed, the Secretary is authorized to waive the removal requirements if he finds that such removal is not otherwise
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