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the Atomic Energj' Committee, the Director of the National Sicence 

 Foundation, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the 

 Secretary of Transportation. This Board can be increased by the 

 President at his discretion from other such agencies and by other such 

 officials as he would find advisable. In the case of the absence of the 

 Chairman, the President shall designate one of the members of the 

 Board to preside over the meeting. Each member of the Board except 

 those designated in subsection (b) may designate any officer of his de- 

 partment or agency, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve 

 on the Board as his alternate in his imavoidable absence. The Board 

 may employ a civilian executive secretary to head the staff of the 

 Board. He shall be appointed by the President and shall receive com- 

 pensation at a rate established by the President not to exceed that of 

 level II of the Federal executive salary schedule ($42,500 per annum). 

 The executive secretary under the direction of the Board is authorized 

 to appoint and establish the compensation of such other personnel as 

 may be needed including not more than seven persons who may be 

 appointed without regard to cevil service laws or chapter 51 and sub- 

 chapt^^r III of chapter 53 of title 5 and compensation is not to exceed 

 the highest rate of grade 18 of the General Schedule. These personnel 

 may be appointed as may be necessary to perform such duties as may 

 be described by the President. 



The Board shall meet regularly at such times as the Chairman may 

 direct and will have the following duties : 



(1) Provide an effective coordination between programs of Federal 

 agencies within the coastal zone. 



(2) In the case of serious disagreement between any Federal agen- 

 cies and a coastal State in the development of the program, the Board 

 shall do its best to mediate the differences. 



(3) Finally, the Board will provide a forum for appeals by any 

 aggrieved areawide planning entity or unit of local government from 

 any decision or action of the Secretary or an areawide planning 

 entity. 



The Committee believes that there may be competition between 

 State management programs and other activities of Federal, State, 

 local, and areawide governments in the management of non-Federal 

 land and water uses within the costal zone. As a result of this compe- 

 tition there may be the need to allow a forum for those parties which 

 may consider themselves aggrieved by the decisions of the State man- 

 agement program or the agency allocated by the State to operate the 

 management program. Therefor, the Committee has created the Board 

 to^ handle just this task. However, there is no intent in the Com- 

 mittee's action to establish a board which would have the final decision 

 in the appeals process. It is the intent of the Committee that the Sec- 

 retar;7 of Commerce shall have the final authority to make decisions 

 affecting management programs within the coastal zone. The bi'oad 

 representation provided for on the Board is aimed at allowing input 

 from as many affected agencies as possible which might have ongoing 

 activities within the coastal zone. It is a foregone conclusion thrxf State 

 management programs will affect both public and private utilization 

 of land and water facilities within the coastal zone and that conflict 

 will invariably arise. The Board hopefully will be able to mediate any 

 such differences to the satisfaction of all parties involved. However, 



