of responsibility in environmental monitoring. Our ocean engineering panel 
could recommend additional duties for the Coast Guard in the application 
of safety standards and regulation to ocean structures and operation. 
NACOA is concerned that we not go on loading the Coast Guard with 
things to do, but not giving to it the means to do them well. 
We have made a careful assessment of the matter. The recent passage of 
significant environmental legislation impacts the USCG to the point that 
the laws may not be adequately enforced or enforceable because of the 
limited manpower and material to do the job. 
The environmental legislation which has had the most impact on the 
Coast Guard at the operating level is the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, particularly the amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500), the Marine Pro- 
tection Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-532), and the Ports 
and Waterways Safety Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-340). The mission perform- 
ance standards which have been issued by the Coast Guard Headquarters 
to implement their responsibility under these laws imply that resources are 
being provided to monitor 25% of in-port oil transfer operations involving 
vessels having a tank capacity of 10,000 gallons or more; to board 5% of 
all tank ships and 20% of all tank barges to insure compliance with oil and 
hazardous substance discharge prevention regulations. During a series of 
visits to District Headquarters of the USCG, we learned that additional 
personnel and resources are needed to accomplish even the current restricted 
activity which has been estimated to be about 50% of that required by the 
standards. 
We have not assessed the resource requirement which would be involved 
if the U.S. extends its fisheries jurisdiction and the Coast Guard is called 
upon to police this extended area. Recent successes in apprehending foreign 
vessels illegally fishing in U.S. waters, indicates that policing an extended 
zone is primarily a matter of more manpower, more ships, more aircraft, 
and the continued imposition of heavy penalities. 
We summarize here the major problems of which we have become aware. 
The Coast Guard, while not yet fully implementing its present Congres- 
sional mandate through the Marine Environmental Protection Program 
which it has developed, will need to expand in the near term because addi- 
tional environmental tasks continue to be assigned to the Coast Guard. 
These near term expansion requirements include: 
© the need to conduct discharge investigations and the consequent en- 
forcement proceedings under the broader definition of navigable 
waters, contained in P.L. 92-500, where such are not already being 
done by other Federal agencies, by the States or localities; 
e the need to expand aerial surveillance within its jurisdictional area to 
detect, quantify, and map oil discharges and gather the necessary evi- 
dence; 
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