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of the United States will result from any such activity. Such standards shall re- 
quire, in part, that any person before depositing or discharging of such materials 
into the coastal waters of the United States must present sufficient evidence to 
sustain a burden of proof that such materials in the location in which they are 
to be deposited will not endanger the natural environment and ecology of these 
waters, and to meet such additional requirements as the Secretary of the Interior 
may deem necessary for the orderly regulation of such activity. 
“‘(b) Such standards shall be adopted and enforced by any department, agency, 
or instrumentality of the Federal Government or any State department, agency, 
or instrumentality that issues any license, permit, or other authorization for 
any such activity with respect to any of such coastal waters. 
“(e) Such standards shall be applicable to all of the departments, agencies, 
and instrumentalities of the Federal Government, to the States and their agen- 
cies, including any person having any license, permit, or other authorization 
from such State or agency for any such activity with respect to any of such 
coastal waters. 
‘‘(d) After the date that a Federal standard is established under this section, 
a State may establish its own standard with respect to the activity covered by 
such Federal standard, except that the State standard must be more stringent 
than the Federal standard and must provide adequate procedures for enforce- 
ment. Such a State standard shall apply to such activity within the State’s 
jurisdiction and the Federal standard shall not apply. If the Secretary of the 
Interior determines that such State standard is not as stringent as the Federal 
standard, or is not being enforced, then the Federal standard shall apply. 
“(e) Every department, agency, and instrumentality of the Federal Govern- 
ment and of the States, and every person applying for a license, permit, or other 
authorization from the United States or from any State to discharge or other- 
wise dispose of any material in the coastal waters of the United States shall 
establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such in- 
formation as the Secretary may reasonably require to assist him in establishing 
standards under this section and in determining whether such department, 
agency, instrumentality, or person has acted or is acting in compliance with 
this section and shall, upon request by the Secretary, permit him to have access 
to and copy such records. 
“(f£) The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to re- 
strain violations of this section. Actions to restrain such violations shall be 
brought by, and in the name of, the United States. In case of contumacy or 
refusal to obey a subpena upon any person under this subsection, the district 
eourt of the United States for any district in which such person is found or 
resides or transacts business, upon application by the United States and after 
notice to such person, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such 
person to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, and 
any failure to obey such order of the ccurts may be punished by such court as a 
contempt thereof. 
“(g) Whoever violates any standard established under subsection (b) of this 
section shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 nor less than 
$5,000 for each violation. In the case of a continuing violation of such a stand- 
ard, each day of violation shall be considered a separate offense for the purposes 
of this section. 
“(h) Upon the effective date of this section, all licenses, permits, or authoriza- 
tions which have been issued by any officers or employee of the United States 
under authority of any other provision cf law shall be terminated. 
U.S. AroMic HNERGY COMMISSION, 
Washington, D.C., October 30, 1970. 
Hon. Epwarp A. GARMATZ, 
Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and. Fisheries, House of Representa- 
tives, Washington, D.C. 
Deak Mr. GaARMaATz: The Atomic Energy Commission is pleased to submit its 
views regarding several bills being considered by your Committee, namely: 
H.R. 15827; H.R. 17603; H.R. 18454; and H.R. 19359. All these bills relate to the 
discharge or dumping of specified waste material into the coastal waters, in- 
cluding the waters and submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf. 
