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with respect to any area designated by him under subsection (a) of this section, 

 and such new or amended standards shall be considered to be the initial Federal 

 standards issued pursuant to such subsection (a) for the purposes of this section. 



And redesignate the succeeding sections of the bill accordingly. 



Page 12, line 15, after the period insert the following : "No license, permit, 

 or authorization issued by any officer or employee of the United States shall be 

 of any effect to the extent that it authorizes or regulates any activity regulated 

 by a State pursuant to State standards which apply to any area designated by 

 the Administrator under section 6(a) of this Act. For purposes of the preceding 

 sentence, an 'activity regulated by a State pursuant to State standards' includes 

 transportation of material to the designated area concerned." 



Mr. Lennon. Now we are delighted to recognize the distinguished 

 gentleman from Florida, Mr. Dante Fascell. 



Mr. Fascell. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. KoGERS. Mr. Chairman, would you yield ? 



Mr. Lennon. Delighted. 



Mr. Rogers. I am particularly pleased to see my colleague from 

 Florida here. He has taken a big interest in this problem and has 

 been a leader in the field and we welcome him to the committee. 



Mr. DiNGELL. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our 

 good friend this morning and if we might take just a moment I think 

 we should take note of some well-deserving facts about the gentle- 

 man from Florida. 



Congressman Dante B. Fascell is serving his ninth term in the 

 House of Representatives. He is a ranking member of the Committee 

 on Foreign xA-ffairs and chairs its Subcommittee on Inter- American 

 Affairs. 



I ^Yant the record to show that Congressman Fascell was appointed 

 by President Nixon to be a U.S. delegate to the 24th General As- 

 sembly of the United Nations, and he recently represented the United 

 States at the inauguration of Mexico's President, Luis Echeverria. 



An acknowledged leader in the fight to protect our beleaguered 

 environment, I want the record to further show that Congressman 

 Fascell is presently a member of the Conference Committee of the 

 International Conference on Scientific Aspects of the Global En- 

 vironment, wliicli will be held in November in Miami, Fla. In addi- 

 tion, while he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on 

 International Organizations and Movements in 1968, Mr. Fascell con- 

 ducted extensive hearings which were reported under this title : "The 

 Oceans : A Challenging New Frontier." 



STATEMENT OF HON. DANTE B. FASCELL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN 

 CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA 



Mr. Fascell. Thank you. 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I appreciate the opportunity to ap- 

 pear once again before this committee on this very important prob- 

 lem. I commend the committee for its prompt action initially in pur- 

 suing this most urgent and difficult problem. 



Mr. Chairman, before I begin my formal statement I think that I 

 would like to make this comment. The chairman of the Conservation 

 and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Committee on Govern- 

 ment Operations has by letter, just recently, asked several agencies of 

 Government to do that which ought to be done under current law, 

 and that is one of the things we all have to consider here. Chairman 



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