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terpreted as superseding or otherwise affecting; requirements estab- 

 lished pursuant to the Federal air and water pollution control acts. 



In both the Clean Air Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control 

 Act authority is granted for effluent and emission controls and land 

 use regulations necessar}^ to control air and water pollution. These 

 measures must be adhered to and enforced. Taken together, the amend- 

 ments that we offer would achieve this results. 



The bill, S. 3507, would establish a Federal Board to assist in co- 

 ordinating the activities of various agencies of the Federal Govern- 

 ment in meeting the objectives of coastal zone management. Perhaps 

 through oversight the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 

 Agency is not made a member of that Board. The third amendment, 

 which I offer for the Public Works Committee, would add statutory 

 membership for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 

 Agency. 



In our judgment, it is absolutely essential that the Administrator 

 of the Environmental Protection Agency, the primary official for en- 

 vironmental quality in the executive branch, be included in any ac- 

 tivity dealing with environmental quality, especially environmental 

 quality relating to land and water use. Among other things, this addi- 

 tion would make meaningful the preservation of authority under the 

 Clean Air Act and the Federal Yf ater Pollution Control Act as pro- 

 posed in the other amendments. At the same time it would result in 

 close coordination in implementing the objectives of the Coastal Zone 

 Management Act. 



Mr. President, I send the three technical amendments to the desk 

 and ask that their reading be dispensed with. 



]Mr. Eagleton (the presiding officer). Without objection, it is so 

 ordered; and the amendments will be printed in the record at this 

 point. 



The texts of the three amendments are as follows : 



On page 24 between lines 17 and 18 insert the following new subsection : 

 "(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act nothing in this Act shall 

 in any way affect any requirement (1) established by the Federal Water Pollution 

 Control Act, as amended, or the Clean Air Act, as amended, or (2) established 

 by the Federal government or by any State or local government pursuant to such 

 Acts. Such requirements shall be incorporated in any program developed pursu- 

 ant to this Act and shall be the water pollution control and air pollution control 

 requirements applicable to such program. 

 On page 17 between lines 22 and 23 insert the following new paragraph : 

 "(10 Tlie Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

 On page 7 between lines 6 and 7 insert the following new subsection : 

 "(h) 'water use' means activities which are conducted in or on the water: 

 but does not mean or include the establishment of any water quality standard or 

 criteria or the regulation of the discharge or runoff of water pollutants except 

 as such standards or criteria or regulations shall be incorporated in any program 

 as provided by Sec. 314 ( e ) . 



Mr. BoGGS. Mr. President. T understand that these amendments will 

 be accepted by the distinguished floor manager of the bill. 



Mr. HoLLixGS. Mr. President, substantially, the three amendments 

 include on the one hand the Administrator of the Environmental Pro- 

 tection Agency on the National Coastal Resources Board, and then 

 spells out that, notwithstanding anv other provision of the act, the 

 provisions of the Water Pollution Control Act or the Clean Air Act 

 shall o-overn. We ai-e not trying in this particvdar measure to set any 

 standards. As the third amendment says, we are not trying to s])ell 



