295 



NOT VOTING— 32 



Bayh 



Bellmon 



Brock 



Brooke 



Chiles 



Cotton 



Dole 



Eastland 



Goldwater 



Harris 



Hart 



An act to establish a national policy and develop a national program for the management, 

 beneficial use, protection, and development of the land and water resources of the 

 Nation's coastal zones, and for other purposes 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Coyigress assembled. That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for 

 a comprehensive, long range, and coordinated national program in marine 

 science, to establish a National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering 

 Development, and a Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Resources, 

 and for other purposes", approved June 17, 1966 (SO Stat. 203), as amended (33 

 U.S.C. 1101-1124), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following 

 new title : 



"TITLE III— MANAGEMENT OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"short title 



"Skc. 301. This title may be cited as the 'Magnuson Coastal Zone Management 

 Act of 1972'. 



"congressional findings 



"Sec. 302. The Congress finds that— 



"(a) There is a national interest in the effective management, beneficial use, 

 protection, and development of the coastal zone ; 



"(b) The coastal zone is rich in a variety of natural, commercial, recrea- 

 tional, industrial, and esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to 

 the present and future well-being of the Nation ; 



"(c) The increasing and competing demands upon the lands and waters of our 

 coastal zone occasioned by population growth and economic development, in- 

 cluding requirements for industry, commerce, residential development, recrea- 

 tion, extraction of mineral resources and fossil fuels, transportation and naviga- 

 tion, waste disposal, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, and other living marine 

 resources, have resulted in tlie loss of living marine resources, wildlife, nutrient- 

 rich areas, permanent and adverse changes to ecological systems, decreasing open 

 space for public use, and shoreline erosion ; 



"(d) The coastal zone, and the fish, shellfish, other Uving marine resources, 

 and wildlife therein, are ecologically fragile and consequently extremely vuIt 

 nerable to destruction by man's alterations ; 



"(e) Important ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values in the coastal 

 zone which are essential to the well-being of all citizens are being irretrievably 

 damaged or lost ; 



"(f) Special natural and scenic characteristics are being damaged by ill- 

 planned development that threatens these values ; 



"(g) In light of competing demands and the urgent need to protect and to give 

 high priority to natural systems in our coastal zone, present coastal State and 

 local institutional arrangements for planning and regulating land and water uses 

 in such areas are inadequate ; and 



"(h) The key to more effective use of the land and water resources of the 

 coastal zone is to encourage the coastal States to exercise their full authority 

 over the lands and waters in the coastal zone by assisting the coastal States, in 

 cooperation with Federal and local governments and other vitally affected 

 interests, in developing land and water use programs for the coastal zone, 

 65-319 — 76 20 



