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useless, and that is in section 307 on interagency coordination and 

 cooperation. 



In paragraph (b) it says: 



"(b) The Secretary shall not approve the management program submitted by 

 a State pursuant to section 306 unless the views of Federal agencies principally 

 affected by such program have been adequately considered. In case of serious dis- 

 agreement between any Federal agency and the State in the development of the 

 program the Secretary, in cooperation with the Executive Office of the President, 

 shall seek to mediate the differences. 



These amendments which I will offer have been proposed by the ad- 

 ministration. That does not make it a political matter because I believe 

 that any administration would ask for the same amendments because no 

 administration wants the fragmentation which is called for under the 

 bill which is before us, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. MosHER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 

 Washington (Mr. Pelly). 



Mr. Pelly. Mr. Chairman, I would like to first say with regard 

 to what the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Kyi) said, that our commit- 

 tee considered that viewpoint, and we saw nothing inconsistent in 

 this bill with the eventual overall land and water planning for con- 

 servation. 



Mr. Chainnan, I rise to voice my support for passage and enact- 

 ment of H.R. 14146, coastal zone management legislation. I completely 

 concur in the previous remarks of tlie distinguished chairman of the 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography (Mr. Lennon) and the subcommit- 

 tee's ranking minority member (Mr. Mosher). Both of these gentle- 

 men have worked on this fine piece of legislation going back as far 

 as 1969 when the subcommittee first held a symposium on this issue 

 and when both were privileged to serve on the Stratton Commission 

 which further identilied the coastal zone problems and the need for 

 legislative solution. Their combined efforts have resulted in a meas- 

 ure which is equitable, strongly supported by a host of organizations, 

 States, and Members of Congress, and which identifies and provides 

 for solutions to the immediate and long-range planning and adminis- 

 tration needs of this valuable natural resource — the Nation's coast- 

 lands and related waters. 



The demand for coastal zone uses has and will continue to rise. 

 Conflicting and competing use demands for this area will necessarily 

 increase in terms of greater pressure for industrial sites, powerplants, 

 housing, shipping facilities, harbors, wilderness areas, and recrea- 

 tional needs. Hodgepodge and willynilly development, in the absence 

 of a sound area management plan, will further perpetuate and in- 

 <;rease the damage which we, as a Nation, have done to our coastal 

 areas in the past as evidenced by continued increases in the level of 

 air pollution, water pollution, urban sprawl and blight, and total 

 destruction of our valuable estuarine areas, spawning and food sources 

 for practically every species which lives in the oceans and coastal 

 waters. 



Tlie importance of enactment of national legislation on the coastal 

 •zone becomes readily apparent if you look at the tremendous amount 

 of executive and legislative attention that has been paid to coastal 

 zone problems on a State level. The State of Hawaii has a strong 



