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Our coastal areas include 100,000 miles of shoreline on which 65 

 million Americans live. Our coasts are crossed by almost $100 billion 

 worth of exports and imports annually. 



The development of our coastal areas has been literally without plan- 

 ning. The result has been severe and steadily worsening air and water 

 pollution. We have major and growing conflicts between the interests 

 of industry, power, housing, shipping, recreation, and conservation. 



We cannot please everybody, but we can try to make the most reason- 

 able and satisfactory compromises between the various interests. We 

 can only do this with an intelligent coordinated management program, 

 which at present we do not have. 



The purpose of this bill is to provide Federal support for State to 

 establish such a program. In future years we will wonder how we ever 

 did without it. 



Mr. LE]ST]srox. Mr. Chairman, I would like to express my deep ap- 

 preciation for the very gracious remarks made by my colleagues. Had 

 the compliments which have been suggested come a little earlier. I 

 might have reconsidered the decision I made last November. 



ilr. Chairman, we have no further requests for time. 



The Chairman. Pursuant to the rule, the Clerk will read the amend- 

 ment in the nature of a substitute printed in the bill as an original bill 

 for the purpose of amendment under the 5-minute rule. 



The Clerk read as follows : 



Be it enacted "by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a 

 comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated national program in marine science, 

 to establish a National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Develop- 

 ment, and a Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, and 

 for other purposes", approved June 17, 1966 (80 Stat. 203) as amended (33 

 U.S.C. 1101-1124), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following 

 new title : 



"TITLE III— MANAGEMENT OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"SHOKT TITLE 



"Sec. 301. This title may be cited as the 'Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972'. 



"CONGBESSIONAL FINDINGS 



"Sec. 302. The Congress finds that— 



"(a) There is a national interest in the effective management, beneficial use, 

 protection, and development of the coastal zone ; 



"(b) The coastal zone is rich in a variety of natur;al, commercial, recreational, 

 industrial, and esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to the present 

 and future well-being of the Nation : 



"(c) The increasing and competing demands upon the lands and waters of our 

 coastal zone occasioned by population growth and economic development, includ- 

 ing requirements for industry, commerce, residential development, recreation, 

 extraction of mineral resource and fossil fuel transportation and navigation, 

 waste disposal, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, and other living marine resources, 

 have resulted in the loss of living marine resources, wildlife, nutrient-rich areas, 

 permanent and adverse changes to ecological systems, decreasing open space for 

 public use, and shoreline erosion ; 



"(d) The coastal zone, and the fish, shellfish, other living marine resources, 

 and wildlife therein, are ecologically fragile and consequently extremely vulner- 

 able to destruction by man's alterations ; 



"(e) Important ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values in the coastal 

 zone which are essential to the well-being of all citizens are being irretrievably 

 damaged or lost ; 



