Department of the Interior has established an Outer Continental 
Shelf Research Advisory Board that includes representatives of 
the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, and adjacent coastal states. Participation of the state 
representatives is intended to assure consideration of local inter- 
ests in planning the studies, to keep them fully informed of prog- 
ress, and to expedite delivery of resulting data to concerned 
agencies of the states. 
The committee makes several new suggestions with respect to 
the Coastal Zone Management Act. It recommends that the Act 
be amended to provide for research and development as needed 
to support management of the coastal zones within the states. 
As the committee correctly notes, there are extensive resources 
presently being applied to a variety of research activities in the 
coastal zone. The bulk of the resources of the National Sea 
Grant Program of the Department of Commerce/NOAA sup- 
ports research activities in the coastal zone. I recognize that the 
National Sea Grant Program was not intended by the Congress 
to be directly and closely responsive to the short-term needs of 
the coastal zone managers and that there may be a need for 
coastal zone management authorities in the states to have a 
capability for carrying out short-term, highly responsive analyti- 
cal studies required in support of local decision making on allo- 
cation of coastal resources. 
I believe there is merit for ensuring adequate coastal zone 
research responsive to the needs of management authorities. The 
problem needs additional study and more specific definition of 
how the individual programs will interact before modification 
of the Coastal Zone Management Act to provide for research 
and development is acceptable to the Administration. I have 
asked the committee to review this matter and give me its views. 
The committee recommends that the estuarine sanctuaries 
program provided for under Section 312 of the National Coastal 
Zone Management Act should be extended in time since the 
funding authorization for that part of the Coastal Zone Manage- 
ment Act was for a single year. We believe strongly in the need 
for such sanctuaries. This problem is under study within the 
Executive Branch. We are examining the relationship between 
the estuarine sanctuaries program under the Coastal Zone Man- 
agement Act and other sanctuaries and wildlife programs. We be- 
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