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Mr. Lennoist. Doctor, you mentioned just before tlie last question 

 put by the gentleman from Ohio, that the administration had recom- 

 mended specific legislation in the area of coastal zone management. 



Was such legislation introduced ? 



Dr. IMacDonald. Specific legislation for coastal zone management ? 



Mr. Lennon. Yes; you said the administration had recommended 

 specific legislation in the area of coastal zone management. 



Dr. JMacDonald. In the last session of Congress specific legislation 

 was introduced. 



JSIr. Lennon. ^Vliat committee was that referred to, and the number 

 of the bill, please, for our record. 



Dr. JSIacDonald. As I recall, that bill was referred to the Committee 

 on Public Works. 



Mr. Lennon. Committee on Public Works, coastal zone management. 



You remember last year when that was, and the number of the bill ? 



Dr. MacDonald. I do not have the number of the bill. We can 

 provide that. 



Mr. Lennon. Well, we would like to have that so we can put our 

 hands on it. 



Now, were there hearings held on that bill by the Public Works 

 Committee which you say was introduced at the request of the 

 administration ? 



Dr. MacDonald. On the House side I believe there were no hear- 

 ings. There were hearings on the Senate side. 



Mr. Lennon. But there were none in the House. 



Dr. MacDonald. As I recall, there were no hearings on the House 

 side. 



Mr. Lennon. Well, what is the administration's view of that bill 

 that was introduced you say at the request of the administration iij 

 the Public Works Committee last year, with no hearings whatever 

 with regard to coastal zone management? 



I am sure it was drawn in such a way that it would be referred to 

 that committee, was it not ? 



Dr. MacDonald. I was not in the administration at the time of the 

 drafting of that legislation, and I would not wish to answer either 

 affirmatively or negatively. 



Mr. Lennon. Doctor, 1 am not belaboring the question I hope un- 

 necessarily. I am not quarreling. 



I am attempting to develop what my distinguished friend from Ohio 

 developed, how we are, or how we shall move, or shall we wait, as the 

 administration waited all of last year on this bill related to coastal 

 zone management in another committee, no hearings, and then another 

 bill introduced this year at the request of the administration on 

 February 17, and still no hearings. 



You say frankly there is not likely to be any. 



Should we not take the first step which you have to take before 

 you take your second ? 



Somewhere there has to be a beginning. 



Now. this committee, and I want you to under this, sir, and those 

 here with the administration, those of us who are involved in, over the 

 period of years in this subject matter have strong convictions about 

 an independent agency, NOAA, but we accepted the philosophy of 

 the administration, maybe not always the philosophy, but the objec- 

 tives that they are trying to move, and the distinguished gentleman 



