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Committee, these documents give a comprehensive view of worldwide 
seabed resources and how much, and how little we know about them. 
Tt has been our stated policy to cooperate with industry to develop 
techniques when it is impossible for industry to do it alone, but to step 
aside when industry no longer needs help. 
Chapter 3, “Management of the Coastal Zone,” is also of especial 
interest to Interior. In terms of environmental problems, this is where 
the action is. The coastal environment is a rich breeding and/or nursery 
ground for most of our marine commercial and sport fisheries. Its 
natural habitat also provides substantial support for a variety of 
waterfowl and other wildlife. 
It is the location of most our marine oil and gas and other mining 
activities. But except for our lakes and inland waters, it is the place 
where the aquatic environment is most threatened by man’s activities. 
Some 75 percent of this Nation’s population lives in the coastal States. 
Tt isa recreational area of rapidly growing importance and desirability. 
Tt is the place from which most of our growing needs for water must 
be satisfied. It is the arena of conflicting interests and uses of the 
environment. 
The Commission rightly recognized that management of the coastal 
zone is a shared responsibility of Federal Government, States, local 
governments, universities, and industry. It properly realized that a 
variety of mechanisms would be necessary for successful management, 
depending on local conditions and needs. 
Here again, Interior’s existing mechanisms for cooperation with the 
States, and our considerable experience in these matters will be valu- 
able. The role of the Department of the Interior in the coastal zone 
was recognized by Congress when it authorized the National Estuarine 
Pollution Study under section 5g of the Clean Water Restoration Act 
of 1966, and the National Estuary Inventory Study under Public Law 
90-454. When they are completed, these studies should provide an 
important source of information for considering further actions with 
respect to the coastal zone. 
Mr. Lennon. Mr. Secretary, I don’t know whether or not you have 
been advised, but the Subcommittee on Oceanography expects to con- 
vene here in Washington on October 28 and October 29 a symposium 
to which we invited the 30 coastal States and Great Lakes States to 
participate in a 2-day forum relating directly to the recommendations 
of the Commission on the so-called coastal zone management. 
This leads me to ask you when is the National Estuary Inventory 
Study to be made available ? 
Mr. Train. That particular study, sir, is due by the 30th of January 
of next year. That is the statutory date. The other study, the National 
Estuarine Pollution Study which is under the statutory direction 
far broader in scope than simply a pollution study and calls for a com- 
prehensive plan for coastal zone management is due, I believe, on the 
3d of November of this year. Those are the statutory dates. 
Mr. Lennon. To what degree has the study progressed where the 
report is due under the statute, I believe you said January 30 of 1970? 
Do you know about that ? 
Mr. Tratn. The study is underway, Mr. Chairman. The funding for 
the study only became available, as I recall, in this current fiscal year, 
so that contracts really have only recently been let for the various 
