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t-hority be placed in HUD. I feel confident that the Members of this 

 House of Representatives would recog^nize that the coastal zone man- 

 agement function should not be placed in HUD, but that was their 

 argument at the time they came before our committee. 



JNIr. Kyl. May I tell the gentleman that this letter is dated August 2, 

 1972, from the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of 

 Mayors and says nothing about granting authority to HUD but calls 

 for a national land use planning program in lieu of that being sug- 

 gested here, and it is dated, as I say, August 2, 1972. 



However, the gentleman's comment is interesting because it gets 

 right to the point of this matter. 



Here we have a bill in land use management — land and water man- 

 agement — and it is proposed here that this authority for the manage- 

 ment be given to the Secretary of Commerce. If we were to follow 

 this kind of fragmentation in land use planning, then I suppose we 

 would have a separate department governing land use in the mountain- 

 ous areas and one for the public areas and one for the private areas 

 and one for the country under that department and one for the city 

 under HUD. 



There are a whole lot of problems in even defining this matter, for 

 how far back from the beach does the authority of the Department of 

 Commerce go in this matter? T\Tiat is the seashore? We will get into 

 a situation ultimately where we have a national organization and the 

 Department of the Interior administering the national land use policy. 



If we did adopt this bill we would be consolidating, Mr. Chairman, 

 under the Department of Commerce not only those cities and rural 

 areas but the Department of Commerce would have authority up to a 

 certain boundary line, perhaps a street, and then the Department of 

 the Intei'ior and the National Land Use Agency would have the auth- 

 ority beyond that point. 



This bill is a good bill if it were included as a part of the national 

 land use plan. 



Mr. Chairman, it is my intention when we get to the amending stage 

 to offer an amendment which would put this activity not in the De- 

 partment of Commerce, but in the Department of the Interior. 



A report is now ready on a bill which has come from the Committee 

 on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House which places the pri- 

 mai-v responsibility for national land use management in an agency in 

 the Department of the Interior with a very much better developed 

 and coordinated effort among the various departments of the Gov- 

 ernment than we find in this proposal which is before us today. 



I think the only sensible way to act is in a unified fashion so that we 

 can have national goals, and so that we can have a national program 

 so that the local governments, the county governments and the State 

 governments will not have to be running to six or seven different de- 

 partments of the Government to get their attention. 



The CiTAiRMAX. The time of the gentleman from Iowa has expired. 



Mr. MosHER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 additional minute to the gen- 

 tleman from Iowa (Mr. Kyl) inasmuch as I consumed 1 minute of 

 the gentleman's time. 



Mr. Kyl. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman. 



Mr. Chairman, there is even in the bill itself which is before us to- 

 day a contradiction which I think would render this program rather 



