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planning with supporting staff. As chairman of ICOR I have a per- 
sonal interest in the development of all ocean-oriented matters. 
The new California Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal 
Resources continued the activities of the former nonstatutory Gov- 
ernor’s Commission on Coastal Resources (GACOR), but because it 
is now funded and charged with specific responsibilities by law, it has 
become much stronger and more influential in reviewing and guiding 
California’s marine and coastal activities. It is funded by State money. 
Governor Reagan has also taken a first step towards the establish- 
ment of a coastal zone authority, by calling for a reorganization of 
State government which was approved by our legislature this year. 
This would provide for an enlargement of the responsibilities of the 
Department of Harbors and Watercraft to include other, and I might 
say all, marine matters. This new department, named Navigation and 
Ocean Development, would also be charted with implementing the 
COAP. 
California is alert to the national developments, and is ready to work 
with the Federal Government in facilitating the coordination of the 
activities of NOAA with California, and looks forward to Federal 
legislation which will provide for such coordination. 
Creation of a NOAA along the lines suggested by this bill will re- 
sult in great strides towards solution of marine and coastal problems. 
However, attention should be given in this bill to the mechanism by 
which NOAA can coordinate with the coastal States in the planning, 
management and implementation phases of the many programs which 
must be carried out jointly by Federal, State and local agencies and 
the private sector in the coastal zone. 
The major objectives to be accomplished by this legislation are (a) 
establish the Federal organizational pattern for ocean matters; (b) 
establish the means by which the States and the Federal Government 
can work to the mutual benefit of ocean science; and (c) to provide 
adequate funding to get the national program in motion. 
_ ‘The Commission report called for a Coastal Management Act which 
would provide policy objectives for coastal zone functions of the 
State government and authorize Federal grants-in-aid to facilitate the 
establishment of coastal zone authorities (CZA) empowered to man- 
age the coastal water and adjacent land. 
We would consider this very essential to the legislation in order to 
make NOAA viable, and strongly recommend that this bill include 
provision for a coastal management act together with adequate 
funding. 
From the State’s viewpoint, a coastal zone authority would offer 
the opportunity to plan and implement programs designed for opti- 
mum utilization and conservation of the coastal zone resources. 
The new California Department of Navigation and Ocean Devel- 
opment, when fully organized, could very well serve as the CZA and 
would implement the California Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan 
now being prepared. 
As this plan, partially funded by grants from Housing and Urban 
Development, proceeds, California will have identified numerous 
coastal zone problems together with recommended action programs 
to solve these problems. It will be at this point that State and Federal 
cooperation is vital to accomplishment of the plan’s objectives. 
