In this spirit of unanimity, I would like to call upon my good friend, 

 Charlie Mosher, the ranking minority member of our subcommittee, 

 for his always distinguished and eloquent comment. 



Mr. MosHER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know that speaking for 

 the minority members of the subcommittee, I can say all of us join 

 with Mr. Garmatz and Mr. Lennon in their opening remarks and we 

 want to be associated completely with them. I will make no attempt to 

 expand on the comments of our distinguished chairman. However, I 

 would like to reiterate what Mr. Lennon has said — ^that in all the de- 

 liberations of this subcommittee we have acted on a completely biparti- 

 san basis. 



I think this is due in part to the subject matter, which as yet has not 

 lent itself to partisanship. And I hope it will not in the future. But I 

 think I should say that this unanimity of action also is in part due to 

 the great fairness of our chairman, Mr. Lennon, and his generosity in 

 equal treatment of the minority members and the majority members, 

 and we certainly appreciate that, Mr. Lennon. 



I know that are many Eepublicans here representing States. Being 

 cognizant of the fact that the majority of State governments no^y are 

 Eepublican controlled, I hope that we have a majority of Eepublicans 

 here in this group. I ask you as a fellow Eepublican, not to be too 

 rough on the other party, and that you, too, act and discuss on a 

 bipartisan basis. 



Mr. Chairman, I am tempted to add one other remarks as a repre- 

 sentative of one of the Great Lakes States. It happens that my district 

 borders on Lake Erie of which some of you have heard. As a representa- 

 tive of a Great Lakes States, I might say to tliis group that one of the 

 points that we in the Congress who represent the Great Lakes area 

 constantly make, is that, by definition, the Great Lakes must continue 

 to be considered as an equal participant in all of the coastal zone efforts 

 of the Nation. 



Therefore, I think it is completely appropriate that most of the 

 Great Lakes States be represented here. 



Mr. Chairman, thank you for this opportunity to say a word of 

 welcome. We wish on this side complete success to your conference. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Mosher. I wish it were possible for each 

 of the members of the subcommittee to express his personal apprecia- 

 tion to the respective representatives from his respective State, but 

 we don't want to spend a lot of time talking from this level. 



We want to hear from you. 



Now, I am going to ask the counsel of the committee, Thomas 

 Clingan to kick the conference off with the first panelists and moder- 

 ator. I really do believe, ladies and gentlemen, that this innovation, 

 this new approach that we are taking, is going to be helpful to us in 

 our sincere efforts to accomplish something really worthwhile. Thank 

 you very much. 



Mr. Clinoan. I will now call, if I may. Dr. Edward Wenk to come 

 forward and bring his panel to start the day's proceeding. 



Panel 1 — A National Program for Coastal Zone Administration 



MODERATOR 



Dr. Edward Wenk, Jr.. executive secretary. National Council on 

 Marine Eesources and Engineering Development. 



