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Such committer- shall be composed of not more than ten persons designated by 

 the Secretary and shall perform such functions and operate in such a manner 

 as the Secretary may direct. The Secretary shall insure that the committee 

 membership as a group pos.sesses a broad range of experience and knowledge 

 relating to problems involving management, use, conservation, protection, and 

 development of coastal zone resources. 



"(b) Members of said advisory committee who are not regular full-time 

 employees of the United States, while serving on the business of the committee, 

 including traveltime, may receive compensation at rates not exceeding $100 per 

 diem ; and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business 

 may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as 

 authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for individuals in the 

 Government ser\'ice employed intermittently. 



"estuarine sanctuaries 



"Sec. 312. (a) The Secretary, in accordance with rules and regulations promul- 

 gated by him, is authorized to make available to a coastal state grants of up 

 to 50 per centum of the costs of acquisition, development, and operation of 

 estuarine sanctuaries for the purpose of creating natural field laboratories to 

 gather data and make studies of the natural and human processes occurring 

 within the estuaries of the coastal zone. The Federal share of the cost for each 

 such sanctuary shall not exceed $2,000,000. No Federal funds received pursuant 

 to section 305 or section 306 shall be used for the purpose of this section. 



"(b) When an estuarine sanctuary is established by a coastal state, for the 

 purpose envisioned in subsection (a), whether or not Federal funds have been 

 made available for a part of the costs of acquisition, development, and operation, 

 the Secretary, at the request of the state concerned, and after consultation with 

 interested Federal departments and agencies and other interested parties, may 

 extend the established estuarine sanctuary seaward beyond the coastal zone, 

 to the extent necessary to effectuate the purpo.ses for which the estuarine sanc- 

 tuary was established. 



"(c) The Secretary shall issue necessary and reasonable regulations related 

 to any such estuarine sanctuary extension to assure that the development and 

 operation thereof is coordinated with the development and operation of the 

 estuarine sanctuary of which it forms an extension. 



"management program for the contiguous zone of the united states 



"Sec. 313. (a) The Secretary shall develop, in coordination v.'ith the Secretary 

 of the Interior, and after appropriate consultation with the Secretary of Defense, 

 the Secretary of Transportation, and other interested parties. Federal and non- 

 Federal, governmental and nongovernmental, a program for the management of 

 the area outside the coastal zone and within twelve miles of the baseline from 

 which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. The program shall be 

 developed for the benefit of industry, commerce, recreation, conservation, trans- 

 portation, navigation, and the public interest in the protection of the environ- 

 ment and shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for the development, 

 conservation, and utilization of fish and other living marine resources, mineral 

 resources, and fossil fuels, the development of aquaculture, the promotion of 

 recreational opportunities, and the coordination of research. 



"(b) To the extent that any part of the management program developed 

 pursuant to this section shall apply to any high seas area, the subjacent seabed 

 and subsoil of which lies within the seaward boundary of a coastal state, as that 

 boundary is defined in section 2 of title I of the Act of May 22, 1953 (67 Stat. 

 29), the program shall be coordinated with the coastal state involvetl. 



"(c) The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, apply the pro- 

 gram developed pursuant to this section to waters which are adjacent to specific 

 areas in the coastal zone which have been designated by the states for the 

 purpose of preserving or restoring such areas for their conservation, recreational, 

 ecological, or esthetic values. 



"annual report 



"Src. 314. (a) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President for 

 transmittal to the Congress not later than November 1 of each year a report 

 on the administration of this title for the preceding Federal fiscal year. The 

 report shall include but not be restricted to (1) an identification of the state 



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