NACOA, FINDING that the best interests of the United States would be 
served by a successful Law of the Sea Conference, but that prudence 
demands we be prepared to act whether or not the Conference succeeds, 
RECOMMENDS that: 
The United States plan in detail for both the timely success of the 
Law of the Sea Conference at Caracas and Vienna or its possible 
delay and failure by preparing now for legislation which could be 
rapidly implemented to make our laws consistent with the Treaty 
or to protect the legitimate interests of the United States in the 
oceans. 
NACOA, FINDING a welcome increase in coastal zone management 
activity, but a heavy increase in offshore activities engendered by the 
energy crisis and the absence of an organized method for providing research, 
development, and advisory services on issues raised therefrom at the state 
level RECOMMENDS that: 
The National Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 be amended 
to include the encouragement and support of the research, develop- 
ment, and advisory services by the States needed to provide a basis 
for careful, long-enduring decisions on coastal zone matters. 
The level of funding under the Coastal Zone Management Act sup- 
porting matching grants for management be increased to $20 
million for FY ’75 and the full $30 million for FY '76 authorized in 
the legislation. 
The Sea Grant program, with its current useful emphasis on coastal 
zone activities, be funded to its authorized level. 
The Estuarine Sanctuaries program be extended in time, and funding 
raised to a level consistent with Congressional intent to provide an 
estuarine sanctuary in each of the identified zoogeographic regions. 
NACOA, FINDING that the recent passage of environmental legislation 
and the additional duties stemming from increased offshore activity under 
coastal nation control affect the United States Coast Guard to the point 
where the laws will not be effectively enforced, RECOMMENDS that: 
A better balance between assigned responsibilities of the Coast 
Guard and the resources to fulfill them be achieved by some com- 
bination of increased funding and reasonable statutory flexibility. 
NACOA, FINDING that the ocean science program within the Navy, 
already weakened by restrictions on funding for research, is being further 
diminished by transfer of funds from oceanographic research to under- 
water acoustics, RECOMMENDS that: 
The Navy review its planned diversion of funds from the basic 
oceanography program, long one of the mainstays of ocean research 
in the country, and make the effort to maintain the basic science 
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