completed a compilation of State and Federal laws and regulations 

 affecting the coastal zone. 



Similar legal research aimed at improving coastal zone management 

 and the management of marine resources is going on in Oregon. New 

 York, North Carolina. South Carolina, Louisiana, and California. Among 

 the goals of these studies are the determination of the effects of public 

 regulation on California's aquaculture industry: assessment of legal, in- 

 stitutional, and policy factors in site selection for ports, waterways, and 

 pipelines in Louisiana; and development of a model county flood plain 

 and hurricane zoning ordinance for Dade County, Florida, 



Although most of the legal studies involve State and regional 

 problems, a number of projects are examining issues of national and in- 

 ternational scope. One project at the Louisiana State University Law 

 Center is the study of the various choices open to the United States in 

 the event that the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference fails to produce a 

 comprehensive and widely acceptable treaty. The study will describe 

 customary international law-making processes that are likely to be used 

 in the event of a conference failure. The work will stress the effects of 

 "nationalization" of ocean space and resources and the costs and conse- 

 quences of alternative approaches in terms of U.S. security and 

 economic interests. It will also seek to identify significant changes in 

 U.S. ocean interests and policies following a conference failure. 



A NSF award was made in 1972 to the John Hopkins University 

 School of Advanced International Studies for the initiation of a study 

 called the 'United States Ocean Policy Project," Three political scien- 

 tists and one economist looked at ocean policy problems and choices 

 faced by U.S. negotiators involved in the U.N. Conference on the Law of 

 the Sea. The project report Toward a National Ocean Policy: 1976 and 

 Beyond was released in February 1976, about a month before the third 

 session of the conference in New York. It included a review of the evolv- 

 ing international ocean regime, the background and character of the 

 U.N, Conference on the Law of the Sea, and analyses of specific issues 

 and alternatives for the United States with respect to national security, 

 commercial navigation, protection of the marine environment, fisheries, 

 mineral resources, and marine science, 



A small number of marine-related projects have been supported 

 through the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 

 One of these studies at the University of Washington examined present 

 systems of law enforcement in the oceans. Various alternative ap- 

 proaches to law enforcement were being studied to assure compliance 

 with national and international regulatory schemes in light of changing 

 international arrangements. 



Another project focused on the responsibility of nations for environ- 

 mental damage. The project sought to determine the responsibility of a 



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