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further grants, contracts for acquisition and development, or other 

 financing are proposed. Failure by a coastal zone authority to safe- 

 guard national interests could lead to Federal intercession, and inade- 

 quate performance by an authority could lead to withdrav/al of funding 

 support and of specific Federal functions delegated to the State. 



Centralization of Federal Responsibilities 



The Commission recommends that Federal responsibilities for dealing 

 with the State authorities be centralized to assure that the Federal 

 Government speaks with a single voice on coastal zone matters. To 

 achieve this centralization, the Commission recommends that these 

 responsibilities be assigned to the new National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), which its report elsewhere proposes be 

 established to secure "more effective use of the se.is." Specific 

 responsibilities which the Commission would assign to NOAA include 

 (a) administration of Federal grants in support of the planning and 

 enforcement activities of the State coastal zone authorities— this 

 would include the pov;er to revoke or withhold grants if the 

 authorities failed to comply with plans approved by NOAA; (b) assist- 

 ance to the States in the resolution of problems resulting from the 

 divergent objectives of other Federal agencies; (c) leadership in 

 identifying and funding the diverse research programs needed to 

 solve the problems of the coastal zone; (d) in cooperation with other 

 Federal agencies, development of necessary monitoring programs in the 

 coastal zone; (e) encouragement of university research and training 

 programs relating to coastal zone management and the support of a 



