IV. ADMINISTRATION HEARING TESTIMONY— 

 92D CONGRESS 



Statement of the Chaieman, Council on Environmental Qualitt 

 Before Senate Committee on Commerce, May 5, 1971 



statement of HON. RUSSELL TRAIN, CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL ON ENVIRON- 

 MENTAL qualitt, ACCOMPANIED BY BOYD H. GIBBONS III, SECRETARY; 

 AND WILLIAM K. REILLY, STAFF MEMBER 



Mr. Train. Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to be here and to testify 

 on behalf of the administration on the relationship between the 

 coastal zone legislation previously submitted by this administra- 

 tion and now pending in several forms before this committee, and the 

 national land use policy legislation also submitted by the administra- 

 tion and pending before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular 

 Affairs. 



I have a prepared statement, Mr. Chairman, but with your per- 

 mission, although it is fairly brief, I will simply submit that for 

 the record and proceed extemporaneously. 



Senator Rollings. Fine. Your statement will be included in its 

 entirety. 



Mr. Train. Thank you, sir. 



I am accompanied on my left by Mr. Boyd Gibbons, who is the 

 Secretary of the Council on Environmental Quality; and on niy 

 right, by Mr. William Reilly, an attorney on the staff of the Council. 



Both of these gentlemen — and particularly under the leadership 

 of Mr. Gibbons — have been closely associated with the work of the 

 Council in developing land use policy. And also, I might say, pre- 

 viously Mr. Gibbons was Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior, 

 with me in the Department of the Interior and closely associated 

 at that time with the development of coastal zone legislation. So I 

 think we have here with us the group who has probably been more 

 closely associated with the development of both areas of legislation 

 than anyone else perhaps in the executive branch. 



I think that it goes almost without saying, Mr. Chairman, that 

 this administration is fully and firmly committed to the need for 

 more effective management of the coastal zone and estuarine areas 

 of the United States ; there is no question about this whatsoever. 



As you are well aware, the administration developed legislation in 

 the last Congress to promote more effective regulation and manage- 

 ment of the coastal and estuarine areas and submitted this to the 

 Congress. This committee has had very extensive hearings which have 

 contributed substantially to public understanding of this very critical 

 issue and need. 



Since the development of the coastal zone legislation the adminis- 

 tration has moved forward to consider the broader realm of land use 



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