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(f) "Secretary" is defined as meaning the Secretary of Conimerce. 

 Varous possibilities were considered as the Federal focal point for 

 coastal zone coordination. After careful consideration, it was con- 

 cluded that the logical repository for that coordination was the 

 Xational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which was estab- 

 lished in 1970 as the lead agency in ocean research and resource 

 development. While other Federal departments and agencies have 

 responsibilities involving the coastal waters, none has so broad and 

 extensive an involvement as does NOAA. This involvement includes 

 programs relating to fisheries, mapping and charting, marine minerals 

 technology, and environmental monitoring and prediction, together 

 with the research activities involving each of these, in addition to 

 the administration of the national sea grant program, 80 percent of 

 which is addressed to reasearch relating to coastal waters and their 

 estuaries. 



Just as NOAA is extensively involved in ocean coastal water pro- 

 grams, it is also charged with responsibilities as to Great Lakes waters, 

 including hydrographic surveys, mapping and charting, basic research 

 in water motion, water characteristics, and water quality, and the 

 collection, coordination, analysis, and publication of data relating 

 to Great Lakes water resources. 



Because this legislation is designed to assist the States in exercising 

 their responsibilities in the national management of their coastal 

 waters and the adjacent impacting shorelands, your committee con- 

 cluded that NOAA as a water-oriented agency, could best coordinate 

 the program and administer the allocation of Federal funds rather 

 than other possible choices which are predominantly land oriented. 

 The coordination provisions of section 307 will insure that the interests 

 of all other Federal agencies are recognized and adequately protected. 



In view of the fact that NOAA is a constituent element of the 

 Department of Commerce, the responsibility for Federal supervision 

 and coordination under this title is placed in the Secretary of Com- 

 merce. It is the committee's intent and firm expectation that the 

 Secretary will exercise that responsibility through the Administrator 

 of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 



Section 305. Management Program Development Grants. — This sec- 

 tion authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to assist the 

 coastal States in developing their coastal zone management programs. 

 No more than two grants, in successive years, may be made to any 

 single State, and the Federal share may not exceed two-thirds of 

 the total development cost, nor may funds received from the Federal 

 Government through other programs be utilized to pay the State's 

 share of the cost. In addition, no second grant may be made to a 

 State unless the Secretary finds that the State is satisfactorily develop- 

 ing its program. This latter provision was included to insure that 

 the State, once embarked on the development of its program, will 

 proceed expeditiously. 



The allocation of grants under this section will be made in accord- 

 ance with regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary. It is 

 intended that those regulations will take into account all relevant 

 factors, including, but not limited, to the complexities existent in the 

 various localities, the nature and extent of the area to be covered by 

 the program, the intensity of the pressures for competing uses, the 



