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Landward they recommend that each State define for itself the 
landward extension of the coastal zone if you recall. They dodge the 
issue for very practical reasons and I would support their formula for 
equally practical reasons. 
I think it is something which would require special consideration in 
each locality. If the States are to operate such authorities I think the 
State should determine its landward jurisdiction. 
Mr. Cruinean. You would favor then establishing the authority and 
let the authority study the problem itself? 
Mr. Brooks. Yes. 
Mr. Cirvean. With regard to the coastal zone laboratories you 
very astutely, I think, pinpointed the lack of criteria for establishing 
the number and location of the coastal zone laboratories. 
Have you any criteria that you would suggest ? 
Mr. Brooks. I think that if it were possible to establish what some 
people call a problem-shed, a definition with an analogy to a water- 
shed, that is, a geographical region which is equally affected by a 
given coastal zone management problem, that this ought to be taken 
into consideration. 
Having at least examined the feasibility of using such a problem- 
shed criteria, then one would, of course, immediately have to go to 
the political jurisdiction to see whether there were jurisdictional con- 
flicts which would dominate or which could be submerged in the 
problem-shed definition. 
This is not unprecedented. In fact, the National Agency for Air 
Pollution Control of the Public Health Service is defining air pollu- 
tion control regions in precisely this way or attempting to, outlining 
the region for an authority to assume jurisdiction over on the basis 
of a shared problem which is fairly uniformally felt throughout that 
region but which is not strongly felt outside of the region. 
Mr. Crinean. I have just one final question. 
Would you personally prefer that these criteria should be legisla- 
tively developed or do you prefer to leave them to administrative de- 
cision by some entity such as the sea grant program ? 
Mr. Brooks. I really don’t havea feel for that. 
Mr. Petiy. I might comment that, if you were to do it legislatively, 
if you put one in every congressional district on the coast I think 
you would probably get it by, but I think it would be more practical 
to leave it up to some other authority to establish those because the 
politics of the situation might not work in the best manner. 
Mr. Lennon. I think the gentleman will recognize that if it isn’t 
done by legislation it will be done by political manipulation at the 
executive level. So what is the difference. As I understood you to say, 
sir, you said that your research center had a contract with the De- 
partment of Commerce related to the Environmental Sciences Services 
Administration ? 
Mr. Brooxs. Yes. We have several such contracts. 
Mr. Lennon. And I think you said you had a contract with the 
Department of Transportation related to the Coast Guard? 
Mr. Brooxs. Yes, indeed. 
Mr. Lennon. For the National Buoy System. I think you said you 
had a contract with the Department of Interior, right ? 
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