47. 



CMC therefore recommended that ICOR have its own budget and 

 an independent staff. Last year I had the dubious pleasure of preparing 

 both CMC's budget request for another year, plus ICOR's initial budg- 

 et request. Both went through and ICOR now is budgeted in terms of 

 money from the general fund ; services from marine oriented depart- 

 ments; and a 701 Federal grant for the development of the COAP. 

 ICOR is proceeding with the plan and the CMC monitors its develop- 

 ment on a step-by-step basis. 



The Neio Department of NavigaMon and Ocean Development. 

 GACOR and CMC have long felt that we needed a NOAA in the State 

 of California much like this subcommittee has proposed on a national 

 level. On March 5, 1969, the Governor submitted Reorganization Plan 

 ISTo. 2 which would establish a new department called the Department 

 of Navigation and Ocean Development. 



Actually it changed the name of the existing Department of Harbors 

 and Watercraft and transferred some ocean-oriented activities to the 

 new department. It does not yet go far enough, but it is a start. This 

 department becomes a legal entity on ISTovember 10, 1969, within a few 

 days. Eventually it will be their responsibility to implement the COAP 

 now being developed by ICOR. 



Department of Navigation and Ocean Development as GZA. It has 

 been proposed, and ICOR has endorsed the view that the new depart- 

 ment become the Coastal Zone Authority (CZA) for California. At this 

 time our Commission has not taken a ratified position on this subject. I 

 expect this to occur at our December 5-6 meeting in San Diego. 



A few of our Commissioners, as individuals, have expressed some 

 doubt that this is the proper place for the CZA to be installed. One 

 questions that it should be within a department of a single agency, in 

 this case the Resources Agency. Another feels that perhapswe should 

 ■expand the BCDC concept to include the entire State. Still another 

 feels that it should be established along the lines of our State water 

 resources control board with a master board in Sacramento and 

 regional districts throughout the State. 



I believe this subject will take up a significant portion of the time 

 at our December meeting and I would expect that we will have taken a 

 position when that meeting is concluded. At the present time we have 

 not and there are some mixed views. 



I would like to make one point clear, however, CMC will do its utmost 

 to advise and assist in the implementation of whatever course of action 

 is selected. If CMC expresses a view that the new department is not 

 the proper place for the CZA to be located, and this is purely hypo- 

 thetical, and if the Administration decides for other reasons that it is 

 the proper place, the CMC will redouble its efforts to make whatever 

 selection is made a workable and successful one, 



Summiary. We believe that with the close cooperation of the line 

 departments in the State government, which we now enjoy, that we are 

 moving forward in approaching solutions to the management of the 

 coastal zone. 



We believe that if CMC is to be effective it must retain its status of 

 reporting to the Governor and the legislature. It cannot be subser\'ient 

 to any one department with its particular special interests, but must 

 continue to advise and assist all departments with marine and coastal 

 interests. 



