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I would like to share that with yon because I believe you are inter- 

 ested in the outcome of this novel, and I at least might tell you what 

 the next to last chapter sounds like. The last chapter will be written- 

 sometime next spring and probably on this side of Washington. 



First of all the Administration is supporting a five-point program- 

 in marine sciences, four of the elements of which bear on the issues 

 that were raised here today : On coastal zone management, on the estab- 

 lishment of coastal laboratories, on the restoration of Great Lakes, and 

 a fourth one having to do with the ecology of the Arctic. 



The fifth of these concerns support for the International Decade of' 

 Ocean Exploration, and considering the scope of this meeting, I will 

 not comment further on the fifth, although it is a very important and 

 very significant element in this pro^-ram. 



Let me say too that this is not simply a proposal from the Council 

 to the President. This is a proposal that has already gone through 

 the process of Presidential review and approval, and therefore what 

 I am going to report to you is now part of the President's program 

 that he will amplify in his submissions to the Congress in January — 

 amplify both in terms of proposed legislation and in terms of requests 

 for additional funds over and above the current phase of activity in 

 these areas. 



With regard to coastal management, I think that the problems that 

 have been enunciated by the Commission, and even prior to the forma- 

 tion of the Commission, by those in the Congress and in the executive 

 branch concerned about our coastal affairs and reflected by acti\'ities of 

 a large number of different Federal agencies, have been brought to 

 a point of necessary action in order that we better manage these scarce 

 resources. 



The legislative proposal that will be submitted to the Congress will 

 be to establish a national policy for the development of coastal areas, 

 to authorize Federal grants witli matching State contributions that 

 will encourage and facilitate the establishment of State management 

 authorities. 



Such legislation will assist to assure that rapid coastal development 

 does not destroy limited coastal land and water resources and that all 

 interests in the coastal areas would have consideration. Grants are 

 anticipated in two phases, the first for the initial develoj^ment by 

 States of planning regulatory mechanisms and a second phase sub- 

 sequently for the operation of those State management systems that 

 are developed. 



The latter grants would be made available to a State contingent on 

 a State demonstrating a capability to propose plans that proved, first, 

 for balanced use of the coastal margin both land and water, second, 

 for access to management-oriented research including coastal ecology 

 studies, third, for regulatory authority, fourths, for consideration of' 

 interests of adjacent States, fifth, for land acquisition and jiower of 

 eminent domain necessarv for implementation of the plan, and finally, 

 for review of proposed Federal assistance to State and local projects 

 to assure consistency with the plan. 



States already have the responsibilit}?- for the management of these 

 resources. They have often lacked the regulatory management ca- 

 pabilities needed and they have been faced with a diversity (of coastaV 

 jurisdictions and the absence of ecological information. 



