Assistance program
Coastal Zone Management Administration Awards
$646.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 11.419
- What it does
- To assist States in implementing and enhancing Coastal Zone Management and related programs that have been approved by the Secretary of Commerce.
- Who benefits
- Institutions of higher educations, hospitals, other nonprofits, commercial organizations, foreign governments, organizations under the jurisdiction of foreign governments, international organizations, and state, local and Indian tribal governments.
- Who applies
- Any coastal State, including those that border the Great Lakes, and including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Freely Associated States of the Pacific whose Coastal Zone Management program has been approved by the Secretary of Commerce. The Governor shall designate the State agency or entity that is to be the applicant.
- Authorized by
- Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments of 1984
- Coastal Zone Management Act of Amendments 1976
- Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments of 1986
- Coastal Zone Management Act of Amendments 1980
- Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000
- Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, 16 U.S.C. § 1451 et seq.
- Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990
- Program site
- https://coast.noaa.gov/programs/czm.html ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments