RSA 485-I:2 Program Established.

There is established within the department of environmental services the New Hampshire coastal program to implement 16 U.S.C. section 1452, the Coastal Zone Management Act. It is the intent of the state to encourage and assist state and federal agencies and coastal zone municipalities in the sustainable use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone giving full consideration to ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values as well as the needs for compatible economic development. The coastal program should encourage and assist to support:
I. The protection of natural resources, including wetlands, floodplains, coastal and estuarine waters, beaches, sand dunes, and fish and wildlife and their habitat within the coastal zone.
II. The management of coastal de