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affect the gi'owth of his State and the general ways in whicli land 

 areas would be developed. We would also expect that a Governor 

 would undertake improvements in the governmental machinery" of 

 the State in order to use all of the State's resources more efficiently 

 in providing sei"vices to the citizens. 



The point here is that this planning and management assistance 

 program can help in providing the broad framework of planning 

 and management to guide the more specific activities contemplated 

 in any of the bills that we have discussed today. 



To summarize, we are clearly in favor of the objectives of the 

 coastal plain bills to improve the management of the valuable land 

 and water resources of our coastal zones. But we believe that this 

 management activity belongs within the broader responsibility of 

 land use policv as contemplated in S. 992, the National Land Use 

 Policy Act of 1971. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Senator Hollixgs. Thanlv you. 



Senator Stevens. That is a very good statement. Has your depart- 

 ment given careful consideration to the problem of trying to coordi- 

 nate the environmental activities. By this I mean environmental activ- 

 ities under the National Environmental Policy Act in terms of the 

 concept of planning in advance so that a State would be able to know 

 in advance that the environmental concepts which are covered by 

 the National Environmental Policy Act would be met by a land usq 

 plan? 



Is this within your concept as to how this national land use policy 

 legislation would work? 



Mr. Jackson. Yes, Senator Stevens. "VVe are already doing that to 

 some extent now. As you know, section 102(c)(2) of the National 

 Environmental Protection Act requires that we file the environmental 

 impact statement that affects all grant programs that are covered in 

 that act. 



In addition, we have section 204 of the Demonstration Cities Act 

 of 1966, and the Office of Management and Budget has established a 

 procedure under A-95, which is one of the issuances of 0MB, that 

 provides that before any grant for any program covered by section 

 204 — that includes our large-scale housing programs, water and 

 sewer grants, urban mass transportation grants, open space land 

 grants, libraries and so forth — a notice must be filed with the agen- 

 cies of State and local government that do the metropolitan and area- 

 wide plaiming for review and comment by tliese agencies to assure 

 consistency with tlie planning and activity that is going on in that 

 State and to determine its impact upon other communities that would 

 be affected by the activity. 



_ Now, what S. 992 would do would be to organize that more effec- 

 tively under the State, especially as it relates to those areas of the 

 State where there are critical environmental concerns. 



We believe that it would substantially enhance the Federal mecha- 

 nism for assisting State and local governments to take into consid- 

 eration the possible advei-se impacts on the enviromnent during the 

 plannbig process from all development. 



