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[CITE: 16USC3507]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                  CHAPTER 55--COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES
 
Sec. 3507. Priority of laws

    Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as indicating 
an intent on the part of the Congress to change the existing 
relationship of other Federal laws to the law of a State, or a political 
subdivision of a State, or to relieve any person of any obligation 
imposed by any law of any State, or political subdivision of a State. No 
provision of this chapter shall be construed to invalidate any provision 
of State or local law unless there is a direct conflict between such 
provision and the law of the State, or political subdivision of the 
State, so that the two cannot be reconciled or consistently stand 
together. This chapter shall in no way be interpreted to interfere with 
a State's right to protect, rehabilitate, preserve, and restore lands 
within its established boundary.

(Pub. L. 97-348, Sec. 8, Oct. 18, 1982, 96 Stat. 1658.)
