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I may take the liberty, and I want you gentlemen to participate in 
it if you like, to introduce that legislation for which there is no com- 
mitment on anyone’s part except to use it as a vehicle for our coming 
hearings. Sys Niki 
We have, as you gentlemen know, and all of you participated 1n its 
sponsorship, the legislation which from here on out will be considered 
as well as the Commission’s report by the witnesses who appear in the 
future, but it occurs to me that when we get into the September hear- 
ings, at which time we expect to have the various agencies and depart- 
ments and bureaus of the Federal Government who might be affected 
by this particular legislation, it might be well to have a vehicle here 
related to the coastal management recommendations made by the Com- 
mission for which they might be called on to testify. 
I will ask counsel to do that and try to have by Tuesday of next 
week, draft legislation that would in substance be a forward step in 
the consideration of the implementation of this part of the Commis- 
sion’s report. 
Now, there are other recommendations that Governor Scott placed 
emphasis upon in addition to that. 
Governor, would you refresh my memory quickly about the other 
specific recomendations that you had in addition to the question of the 
coastal zones, the coastal management? I think you had one other that 
you laid some stress upon in your statement. 
Governor Scorr. Yes, Mr. Chairman. 
I was looking for the exact statement. 
Mr. Lennon. Is that coastal zone laboratories ? 
Governor Scorr. The coastal zone laboratories; in addition to the 
coastal zone authority, the establishment of the laboratory, itself, 
which, of course, would necessitate some funding. These are the two 
priority items that we are concerned with. 
Again, as I stated, feeling that any question of reorganization might 
properly come later, we think the urgency of getting on with the actual 
development of these resources can be met within the existing frame- 
work and later on if it is determined that the program can best be 
operated under a separate agency or another coordinating council, it 
can be done. 
Mr. Lennon. In connection with that recommendation, I would like 
to suggest, too, that counsel review that part of the Commission’s re- 
port relating to its suggestion or recommendation for the establish- 
ment of the coastal laboratory. I am of the opinion that in a piece of 
legislation that will be used for consideration only by the committee 
that perhaps there should be one single piece of legislation. 
That doesn’t commit us at all, gentlemen. If someone gives us a 
vehicle to base the testimony on, it will remind us to ask questions of 
the witnesses who appear in the future not only on the legislation we 
now have pending before us but on this legislation as well. 
I think it is interesting, Governor Scott, that you called our atten- 
tion rather dramatically to the position of the administration that 
took place back shortly after the first report came out, not from this 
committee, but from an independent committee, and the experience 
this committee had with the so-called Interagency Committee on 
Oceanography. 
