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dynamic industries ; these industries need water and land — they need 

 areas for more urban development ; they need room for factory sites 

 and other industrial expansion. All of these are compelling and legiti- 

 mate needs, and I am convinced they must be fulfilled if our Nation is 

 to remain economically healthy. 



Despite the fact that industrial and environmental interests appear 

 on a collision course, despite the fact that these two opposing forces 

 must compete for the same valuable coastal zones, I am convinced that 

 these two competing interests can learn to live together harmoniously 

 Indeed, unless they learn to do just this, future generations of Amer- 

 icans will be sentenced to an unthinkable hell where chaos will rule, 

 and wliere industry and environment will both strangle in a quagmire 

 of inadequate and decimated land resources, solely because proper 

 planning for utilization of those resources was not carried out by this, 

 our present generation of Americans. 



Mr. Chairman, as President Truman so often said, "The buck stops 

 here." This Congress and this generation must make hard decisions 

 and take prompt action now — not next week or next month or next 

 year, but right now — today, by this 92d Congress. 



The legislation being considered by the Congress today is appro- 

 priately entitled the coastal zone management bill. It represents the 

 first essential step toward discharging our responsibility because it 

 would authorize funding for an initial, 3-year program to lay down 

 guidelines and to help the individual States develop intelligent, 

 planned programs for the future conservation, development, and uti- 

 lization of the Nation's coastal zones. 



Mr. Chairman, I would like to reiterate that this bill is not just en- 

 vironmental oriented legislation. As chairman of the House Commit- 

 tee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, I have always had a special 

 concern for the American Merchant Marine and the maritime industry 

 and I think everyone in this Chamber is well aware of my desire to see 

 this industry grow and prosper. The maritime industry is also ex- 

 tremely important to the State of Maryland. As a matter of fact, the 

 port of Baltimore, and its related maritime industries, represent Mary- 

 land's largest economic asset. And yet, unless the State of Maryland 

 begins now to make intelligent plans and decisions for the future, in 

 10 or 20 years from now, the port of Baltimore may find itself incapa- 

 ble of competing with other east coast ports. 



The legislation before us today will eventually set up the machinery 

 and provide the funds to help States like Maryland make intelligent 

 and rational long-range plans for things such as port facilities which 

 will be big enough and accessible enough to attract the huge super- 

 ships which will dominate the commerce of tomorrow. 



And while the State of Maryland plans for its ports of tomorrow — 

 together with the channel dredging and other harbor installations 

 that will be needed, it will also be forced to respond to pressure for 

 more industrial sites, for more powerplants and for more living space 

 for its ever-expanding population. Let us not forget that, while it is 

 planning for all this, it must simultaneously plan to provide addi- 

 tional recreational space so that this increasing population can still 

 enjoy the pleasures of tlie ever-shrinking coastal zones. In my State 

 of Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay is also a primary economic asset — 



