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not come into conflict with laws on the books with resj^ect to mining 

 use in that outer continental area ? 



Mr. AspiNALL. My colleague's position is entirely logical. Of course, 

 two jurisdictions are involved, the Department of the Interior and the 

 other is under the agency administering the Outer Continental Shelf 

 legislation. This is one of the deficiencies in this legislation. I tliink 

 if we could put it in the one Department we would remove a great many 

 of the difficulties I see lying ahead. 



Mr. LoxG of Maryland. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? 



!Mr. Kyl. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland. 



Mr. Long of Marrland. Mr. Chairman, is it the gentleman's feeling 

 in offering this amendment that the Department of the Interior would 

 be somewhat more vigilant in protecting the public interest than 

 ]30ssibly the Commerce Department ? 



]Mr. Kyl. No. My argimient is simply this. In the first place we are 

 going to have national land-use planning calling for statewide com- 

 prehensive land-use plans. 



Under any such bill I am absolutely confident that the burden for 

 administration will be a land use planning agency within the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, because it is now that Department which is in 

 charge of land use planning. 



As a matter of fact, under the land and water consre\^tion fund 

 each State has to have a comprehensive outdoor recreation plan already 

 under the Interior Department. 



So far as the one-third of the l»5"ation under public lands is concerned, 

 the Interior Department has complete jurisdiction. 



There is no way of taking the Interior Department out of this pic- 

 ture. Because it is so deeply involved, because it has expeitise, because 

 it has departments involved in land use planning now, it is the logical 

 place to put this. 



!My argimient is that we should not fragment the effort, frustrate 

 the States and frustrate the local governments by having them go to 

 six or ^ven departments to get the word as to what they must do on 

 land use plamiing. 



Mr. Long of Maryland. The gentleman's reasoning sounds persua- 

 sive to me. I support his amendment. 



Mr. Lennox. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amend- 

 ment. 



I believe this is typical, once again. We anticipated this. 



I should like to make it crystal clear that the gentleman who was 

 just in the well was not reflecting the administration downtown on 

 Pennsylvania Avenue. If the gentleman wishes to respond to that, 

 will he please document it and read the letter from the person down- 

 tov/n in which it is requested, in spite of the fact that the White House, 

 with the wholehearted, concurrence of this body as well as the other 

 body, created NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, 

 wlicre this function would be. 



Does the gentleman wish to respond that he has a letter in his pos- 

 session from the White House in which they say they are requesting 

 this legislative authority be transferred to the Department of the 

 Interior ? 



Mr. Kyl. I will say to the gentleman, to be absolutely accurate and 

 frank, that these amendments which I offer at this time ■were prepared 

 by the administration on a sheet which came to me from the adminis- 

 tration. They are called administration amendments. 



