VI. HOUSE REPORT ON H.R. 14146 



94th Congress ) HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES j Report 

 2d Session f ] No. 92-1049 



COASTAL ZONE ]\IANAGEMENT 



May 5, 1972.— Committed to the (Committee of the Whole House on the State of 

 the Union and ordered to be printed 



Mr. Garmatz, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 submitted the following 



REPORT 



[To accompany H.R. 14146] 



The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was 

 referred the bill (H.R. 14146) to establish a national policy and 

 develop a national program for the management, beneficial use, pro- 

 tection, and development of the land and water resources of the Na- 

 tion's coastal zone, and for other purposes, having considered the 

 same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend 

 that the bill as amended do pass. 



The amendment is as follows : 



Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 



That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a comprehensive, long-range and 

 coordinated national program in marine science, to establish a National Coun- 

 cil 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 tiie end tliereof the following title : 



"TITLE III— MANAGEMENT OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"short title 



"Sec. 301. This title may be cited as the '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, recreational, 

 industrial, and esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to the pres- 

 ent 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, 



(305) 



