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also provide a total approach to the total water management picture. In the area 

 of Xatural Eesotirces Management, we feel we possess the minds and sotils. but 

 have lacked public understanding and fiscal application toward meeting yes- 

 terday's failures, today's needs, and tomorrow's goals. 



The above puts into focus the States' viewpoints, which need to be seriously 

 considered. I would like to suggest that the Committee consider the advisability of 

 establishing a research laboratory for the Great Lakes to focus attention on^ 

 the research problems of the Lakes and alleviate the fractionalized efforts now 

 devoted to solving these problems. Authority for such a laboratory has been 

 provided, and the University of Michigan has made a site available, but no- 

 further action has been taken. 



Although there are striking similarities between the Great Lakes and the 

 oceans as regards problems and techniques of data collection and analysis, there 

 are also many striking and important differences. The Great Lakes Basin is 

 essentially a fresh-water, river system with very large, natural reservoirs. It 

 has many management problems which are not amendable to the approaches 

 appropriate to solutions of oceanic problems. On this basis, the Great Lakes^ 

 Basin Commission feels that inclusion of the Great Lakes in the proposed legis- 

 lation would serve to diminish rather than strengthen the excellent start made 

 in coordinated joint planning for management of the Great Lakes. 



"While we applaud, in the interest of efficiency, the concept of consolidation of 

 Federal agencies vrith similar and/or complementary missions, we feel obligated 

 to point out that the establishment of single-state coastal authorities for plan- 

 ning, with review by a Federal agency (whose major mission is data collection 

 and research, rather than planning), is a step backward from the principles and 

 goals of coordinated joint planning established by the Water Resources Planning 

 Act of 1965. We would urge careful reconsideration of this portion of the 

 proposed legislation, while at the same time commending the desire for better 

 management of our coastal and estuarine areas which prompted it. 



I appreciate the opportunity to present my views to the Commission. 



Coastal Zone ML\XAGEiiEXT in CAUff-osNiA 



(Presented by Harold Bissell. executive secretary, California Interagency 

 Council for Ocean Resources) 



For some time, extending back at least to the Governor's Conference in 1964 

 on "California and the World Ocean", there has been increasing emphasis in our 

 State upon solving the problems of conservation and use of our coastal resources. 



The Governor's Advisory Commission on Ocean Resources (GACOR) during 

 its existence from 1965 to 1967 made numerous recommendations for State action 

 in the field of ocean oriented activities, and a very thorough and comprehensive 

 analysis of many of California's coastal problems was prepared in 1965 by the 

 Institute of Marine Resources for the State Office of Planning, financed in part 

 through an urban planning grant under provisons of Section 701 of the Housings 

 Act of 1954 as amended. 



In 1967 the Legislature created the California Advisory Commission on Marine 

 and Coastal Resources (CMC) replacing GACOR. They also stated that it is the 

 "policy of the State of California to develop, encourage, and maintain a compre- 

 hensive, coordinated State plan for the orderly, long-range conservation and 

 development of marine and coastal resources, which will ensure their wise 

 multiple use in the total public interest". The same legislation directed the 

 Governor to prepare a Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan fCOAP). 



The Governor responded by creating the Interagency Council for Ocean 

 Re.sources (ICOR) to prepare the plan — under CMC review. 



Due to problems of fimding and organization, the ICOR planning staff was 

 not fully operational until the summer of 1969. and is now proceeding through 

 initial planning steps including the establishment of planning objectives and the 

 definition of the planning area. Most of the current effort is being directed 

 towards a study of the problems of obtaining a coastal zone inventory. 



Governor Reagan meanwhile submitted a Reorganization Plan, to the Cali- 

 fornia Legislature, in which he called for a new Department of Navigation and 

 Ocean Development to be formed from a restructured Department of Harbors 

 and Watercraft. 



In his message to the Legislature when submitting the Reorganization Plan.. 

 Governor Reagan stated that "the actions proposed in thLs Plan will provide- 



