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INIr. Stevens. I thank the. Senator. 



Mr. Baker. ]\Ir. President, I serve on three committees of the Con- 

 gress which have important jurisdiction over areas of environmental 

 quality; the Committee on Public Works, the Committee on Com- 

 merce, and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. As a result of my 

 experience in these committees I have a growing concern witli the 

 lack of coherence and integration of the environmental quality laws 

 and the regulations. It is my belief that we are rapidly approaching 

 the time when we must look at the environmental protection laws Con- 

 gress has enacted in their totality, and perhaps intergrate all of the laws 

 and regulations that presently exist into a more coherent body of pro- 

 cedural and substantive law. 



In the interim Congress should not act to further confuse the scope 

 of environmental laws and regulations, especially b}^ enacting man- 

 dates to difl'erent agencies of the Government to perform the same 

 or parallel activities. 



The bill S. 3507, coastal zone management, without the amendments 

 reccommended by Senator Boggs, would have this effect. In tiie Fed- 

 eral Water Pollution Control Act, especially as it would be amended by 

 S. 2770, the Congress lias enacted an elaborate scheme for the control 

 of water pollution and the achievement of water quality. Good govern- 

 ment dicta^tes that this must be the vehicle for the regulation of water 

 quality. We should not enact additional statutes directing other agen- 

 cies of Federal and State Governments to perform overlapping and 

 possibly conflicting tasks through an elaborate scheme of their own. 



In addition to causing confusion and waste, such action would oper- 

 ate at great disadvantage to those who seek to comply with the law. In 

 addition to increasing procedural costs, such action w^ould create a cli- 

 mate of uncertainty wliicli ultimately leads to poor performance. The 

 public expects more from its government. 



I therefore support these amendments. 



The Presiding Officer. The question is on agreeing to the amend- 

 ments en bloc of the Senator from Delaware. 



The amendments were agreed to. 



Mr. BoGGs. Mr. President, I send to the desk an amendment and 

 ask that it be reported. 



The Presiding Officer. The amendment will be reported. 



The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to state the amendment. 



Mr. BoGGS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 

 readins: of the amendment be dispensed with. 



The Presiding Officer. Without objection, it is so ordered; and the 

 amendment will be printed in the Record. 



The amendment reads as follows : 



On page 24, after line 17, add a new subsection (e) : 



"(e) (1) Tliat Congress finds that consideration is being given to the construc- 

 tion beyond tlie territorial sea off tlae coast of the United States of sliip doclcing, 

 electric generating, and other facilities. Since adjacent coastal States might he 

 adversely affected by pollution from such facilities. It is hereby established as 

 Federal policy to require approval of any States which may be so affected before 

 any such facilities are constriicted. 



(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no Federal department 

 or agency shall construct, or license, or lease, or approve in any way the con- 

 struction of any facility of any kind beyond the territorial sea off the coast of the 

 United States until (1) such department or agency has filed with the Administra- 

 tor of the Environmental Protection Agency, a compU^te report with i-espect to 



