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AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. KYL, 



Mr. Kyl. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. 

 The Clerk read as follows : 



Amendment offered by Mr. Kyl : On page 34, line 16, delete "Commerce" and 

 substitute therefor "the Interior." 



Mr. Kyl. Mr. Chairman, this is a land water management bill which 

 the chairman says involves management of land on which we have 66 

 million people living. It is a land-use management bill. 



The Department of the Interior has been designated to administer 

 the National Land Use Policy Act of 1972, which is proposed in H.E.. 

 4332, which has cleared the Commitee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 

 and it is so designated because of its expertise in and its statutory 

 responsibility for natural resource management. For the same reasons 

 that Interior is the Federal agency best able to administer a program 

 of assistance for comprehensive statewide land use planning, it is the 

 department best able to assist with land-use planning in the coastal 

 zone. Interior bureaus with coastal zone competence include the 

 National Park Service, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 

 the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, and the 

 Bureau of Land Management. 



If coastal zone management is to be a meaningful first step toward 

 comprehensive statewide land-use planning, the program authorized 

 by H.R. 14146 should be structured to anticipate integrated admin- 

 istration by a single department whose capabilities are adequate to 

 achieve this objective. If the Department of Commerce were to admin- 

 ister a program of assistance for coastal zone planning, and the De- 

 partment of the Interior a program for the balance of each State, the 

 resulting duplication or arbitrary division of effort would hinder the 

 States' adoption and implementation of a truly comprehensive land- 

 use policy. 



Adoption of this amendment would in no way affect the continued 

 availability to States of the expertise in marine affairs which is unique 

 to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 



We can almost reduce this matter to an absurdity. If Commerce is 

 going to administer coastal zones, then why should not the Agriculture 

 Department administer rural areas and the HLTD the city planning, 

 and so on ad infinitum. This matter belongs in the Interior Department 

 and not in the Commerce Department. 



Mr. AspiNALL. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield ? 



INIr. Kyl. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado. 



Mr. AspiNALL. Mr. Chairman. I wish to state to my colleagues, the 

 gentleman from Iowa and my colleagues of the committee, that if this 

 amendment could be approved by the committee, it would remove a 

 great deal of my objection to the bill as it now is for the simple reason 

 that I do not like to see fractionated administrative operations and 

 procedures. This would put the matter of the administration of the 

 public lands — and these are part of the public lands and also related 

 to private land uses — in one Department and there would not be this 

 difficulty of duplication. 



I support my colleague's amendment. 



Mr. Kyl. I would ask the gentleman from Colorado, in this offshore 

 area v/hich is included by some coordinated effoti^ in this bill, in spite 

 of the protestations that there is no setting aside of other law, do we 



