Coastal Management Zone

Question 1

Coastal Zone Management Act

Answer 1

to promote economic and social improvement of the citizens of SC and to encourage development of coastal resources with due consideration for the environment within a framework designed to protect the sensitive and fragile areas from inappropriate development

Question 2

Coast Zone Management Act Cont’d

Answer 2

To provide adequate environmental safe zones ; to protect, preserve and restore or enhance the resources of the coastal zone for current and future generations ; to formulate a comprehensive tidelands protection plan and beach erosion and protect plant or sand dunes ; to encourage and assist state agencies, counties, municipalities and regional agencies to exercise their responsibilities to achieve wise use of coastal resources giving full consideration to ecological, cultural and historic values, as well as to the needs for economic as social development and resources conservation

Question 3

Coastal Zone

Answer 3

all coastal waters and submerged lands seaward to the states boundaries and all lands and water of the coastal counties

Question 4

8 Coastal Counties in South Carolina

Answer 4

Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Horry, Jasper, Georgetown

Question 5

Coastal Division

Answer 5

created on July 1, 1994, the SC legislature created this under the Dept of Health and Environmental Control on the Coastal Zone Management Appellate Panel. The purpose is to act as an advisory council to DHEC. It consists of 15 member, either of whom reside in each of the coastal counties and are elected by majority vote of the legislature. The remaining are from the 7 congressional districts and are similarly elected.

Question 6

Circuit Court of the county

Answer 6

activity affecting coastal land is occurring shall have jurisdiction to enforce and restrain violators of the laws.

Question 7

First Offense for violations or non-compliance of Coastal Zone Management Act

Answer 7

1. Find of not more than %5,000 2. imprisonment for not more than six months 3. both fine and imprisonment

Question 8

Second and Subsequent offenses

Answer 8

1. Fine of not more than $10,000 2. imprisonment for not more than one year

Question 9

Baseline

Answer 9

A line running parallel to the shoreline and located at the crest of the primary oceanfront sand dune in that zone

Question 10

Setback

Answer 10

A line established landward of the baseline a distance which is forty times the average annual erosion rate and not less than twenty feet from the baseline for each erosion zone.

Question 11

Activities allowed seaward of the baseline

Answer 11

1. wooden walkways, no larger than 6 feet wide. 2. wooden decks no larger than 140sqft 3. fishing piers open to the public 4. golf courses 5. normal landscaping 6. structures allowed by special permit 7. pools if that are landward of an existing erosion control structure or device. *DHEC permits are required for 2-7

Question 12

Applicant

Answer 12

any person who files an application for a permit under the provisions of this chapter

Question 13

Beaches

Answer 13

means those lands subject to periodic inundation by tidal and wave action so that no non-littoral vegetation is established

Question 14

Coastal waters

Answer 14

means the navigable waters of the US subject to the ebb and flood of the tide and which are saline waters, shoreward to their mean high-water mark. Provided that the dept. may designate boundaries which approximate the mean extent of saline waters until such time as the mean extent of saline waters can be determined scientifically

Question 15

Coastal Zone

Answer 15

all coastal waters and submerged lands seaward to the states jurisdictional limits and all lands and waters in the counties of the State which contain any one or more of the critical areas.

Question 16

Critical Areas

Answer 16

Coastal Waters, Tidelands, Beaches, Beach/Dune system

Question 17

Dredging

Answer 17

means the removal or displacement by any means of soil, sand, gravel, shells or other material whether of intrinsic value or not from any critical area

Question 18

emergency

Answer 18

unusual incident resulting from natural or unnatural causes which endanger the health, safety or resources of the residents of the State, including damages or erosion to any beach or short resulting from a hurricane, storm or other such violent disturbance

Question 19

Estuarine Sanctuary

Answer 19

means a research area designated as an estuarine sanctuary by the Secretary of Commerce

Question 20

Filling

Answer 20

means either the displacement of saline waters by the depositing into critical areas of soil, sand, gravel, shells or other material or the artificial alteration of water levels or water currents by physical structure, drainage ditches or otherwise

Question 21

Minor development activities

Answer 21

construction, maintenance, repair, or alteration of any private piers or erosion control structure, the construction of which does not involve dredge activities.

Question 22

Tidelands

Answer 22

all areas which are at or below mean high tide and coastal wetlands, mudflats, and similar areas that are contagious or adjacent to coastal waters and are an integral part of the estuarine systems involved.

Question 23

Submerged lands

Answer 23

those river, creek, and oceans bottoms lying below mean low-water mark