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gram for the management, beneficial use, protection, and development 

 of the land and water resources of the Nation's estuarine and coastal 

 zone. 



S. 3183 would establish a national policy which declares a national 

 interest in the effective management, beneficial use, protection and de- 

 velopment of the land and water resources of the Nation's estaurine 

 and coastal zones. 



The bill is based on a three year comprehensive study of the effects 

 of pollution in estuaries and estuarine zones of the United States on 

 fish and wildlife, on fishing, recreation, water supply, water power by 

 the Department of the Interior as required by section 5 (g) of the Fed- 

 eral Water Pollution Control Act.^ It encourages the development by 

 coastal States, of comprehensive management programs for the land 

 and water resources of the coastal zones by authorizing grants of 

 Federal funds up to 50 percent of the costs of the programs. The use 

 of other Federal funds to match the grants provided by S. 3183, is pro- 

 hibited, and various safeguards are established to permit the Secre- 

 taiy of the Interior to assure, as a condition to the continuation of 

 grants, that the States are adhering to the programs as approved by 

 the Secretary. 



Although the Federal Maritime Commission has no statutory func- 

 tions or responsibilities which would be affected by the provisions of 

 S. 3183, we are deeply concerned with the mounting environmental 

 problems daily menacing the peoples of this Nation. The programs con- 

 templated in this bill appear designed to provide effective measures to 

 combat some of these problems in the estuarine and coastal zones of 

 the United States. 



The Commission favors its enactment. 



The Bureau of the Budget has advised that there would be no ob- 

 jection to the submission of this letter from the standpoint of the ad- 

 jministration's program. 

 Sincerely, 



Helen Delich Bentlet, 



Chairman. 



General Counsel of the Department or Commerce, 



Washington, D.C., June ^J, 1970. 

 Plon. Warren G. Magnuson, 

 Cliainnarts Commiittee on Cominerce, U.S. Senate, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Dear Mr. Chairman : This is in further reply to your request for 

 the views of this Department concerning S. 2802, a bill to assist the 

 States in establishing costal zone management programs, to be cited 

 .as the "Coastal Zone ^Management Act of 1969." 



S. 2802 would amend the Marine Resources and Engineering Act of 

 1906, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) by adding two new titles 

 for the purpose of assisting the States to establish coastal zone man- 

 agement programs. In carrying out the provisions of this bill, the Na- 

 tional Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development 

 'establislicd by the 1966 Act would revicAV any planning and develop- 



in^ U.S.C. 46fifc)(g). 



