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            A. Uses of the coastal zone subject to the coastal use permitting program shall be of two types:

            (1) Uses of state concern: Those uses which directly and significantly affect coastal waters and which are in need of coastal management and which have impacts of greater than local significance or which significantly affect interests of regional, state, or national concern. Uses of state concern shall include, but not be limited to:

            (a) Any dredge or fill activity which intersects with more than one water body.

            (b) Projects involving use of state owned lands or water bottoms.

            (c) State publicly funded projects.

            (d) National interest projects.

            (e) Projects occurring in more than one parish.

            (f) All mineral activities, including exploration for, and production of, oil, gas, and other minerals, all dredge and fill uses associated therewith, and all other associated uses.

            (g) All pipelines for the gathering, transportation or transmission of oil, gas and other minerals.

            (h) Energy facility siting and development.

            (i) Uses of local concern which may significantly affect interests of regional, state or national concern.

            (2) Uses of local concern: Those uses which directly and significantly affect coastal waters and are in need of coastal management but are not uses of state concern and which should be regulated primarily at the local level if the local government has an approved program. Uses of local concern shall include, but not be limited to:

            (a) Privately funded projects which are not uses of state concern.

            (b) Publicly funded projects which are not uses of state concern.

            (c) Maintenance of uses of local concern.

            (d) Jetties or breakwaters.

            (e) Dredge or fill projects not intersecting more than one water body.

            (f) Bulkheads.

            (g) Piers.

            (h) Camps and cattlewalks.

            (i) Maintenance dredging.

            (j) Private water control structures of less than fifteen thousand dollars in cost.

            (k) Uses on cheniers, salt domes, or similar land forms.

            B. Subject to the provisions of this Subpart, the delineation of uses of state or local concern shall not be construed to prevent the state or local governments from otherwise regulating or issuing permits for either class of use pursuant to another law.

            C. The secretaries of the Departments of Energy and Natural Resources and Wildlife and Fisheries are authorized to jointly develop for adoption by the secretary, after notice and public hearing, rules for the further delineation of the types of uses that have a direct and significant impact on coastal waters and that demonstrate a need for coastal management, the classification of uses not listed herein, and for the modification and change of the classifications of uses, provided that no changes shall be made in the classifications of the uses listed in Subsection A of this Section.

            D. In order for the state to exercise all or part of the federal government’s authority for the issuance of permits for discharges of dredged or fill material within the coastal zone, the secretary is authorized to adopt necessary and appropriate rules, consistent with the other provisions of this statute, for the regulation of discharges of dredged or fill material into waters in the coastal zone subject to Section 404 regulation by the Corps of Engineers.

            E. When only part of a use lies within the coastal zone, only that portion of the use which is located within the coastal zone is considered a use subject to a coastal use permit under this Subpart.

            F. Except as provided in this Subsection, all uses and activities within the coastal zone are permissible, subject to the permitting requirements of this Subpart. However, dredging sand pits and excavating within three hundred feet of Highway 1, south of the town of Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish, unless such excavating is associated with a drainage, utility, communications, pipeline, or fiber optic project for which a coastal use permit has been issued, shall be prohibited and shall not qualify for a coastal use permit. Any excavation associated with a pipeline project shall be refilled once the project is complete.

            Acts 1978, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Acts 1983, No. 705, §4, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 2014, No. 168, §1; Acts 2023, No. 150, §20, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.