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been ordered reported by the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. 

 As a member of both the Interior Committee and the Merchant Marine 

 Committee which reported the coastal zone management bill, I would 

 like to point out the important relationship between these two bills. 

 The coastal zone management bill we are considering today is in- 

 tended to be a first step toward a comprehensive, statewide program of 

 land-use planning, designed to protect our coastal zones in particular. 

 The Department of Commerce would be designated to provide for 

 management and protection of the coastal zones and the adjacent shore- 

 lands and transitional areas. 



The national land-use planning bill also provides for land-use plan- 

 ning of these areas, but on a larger scale and with the responsibility 

 assigned to the Department of the Interior. 



I hope that in voting on this measure today my colleagues will take 

 into consideration the need to coordinate the activities that will be the 

 result of this bill and those of the land-use planning bill, if passed. If 

 both of these measures are to be meaningful in their stated goals of 

 protection, regulation, and preservation of our land resources, they 

 must not be entangled in a maze of waste, duplicity, and interagency 

 dispute. 



If we hope for a truly comprehensive land use policy in this country, 

 we must not handicap it with unnecessary duplication or arbitrary 

 division of effort which might hinder the States' adoption of land use 

 plans. 



It is my considered opinion that the administration proposal haa 

 merit and I urge my colleagues to support the amendment offered by 

 Mr. Kyi. 



Mr. AspixALL. jSIr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number 

 of words. 



Mr. Chairman, I will not take very much time, but I do wish to ask 

 my friend, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Lennon) a couple 

 of questions. 



As I understand the way the bill is now drawn, the administration 

 would be under the Secretary of the Department of Commerce because 

 NOAA is part of the Department of Commerce ; is that correct ? 

 Mr. Lennox. Yes, NOAA is part of the Department of Commerce. 

 Mr. AspiNALL. Then I notice also in the report that the only reference 

 that we have to the Department of Commerce, as far as the reports are 

 concerned, was a question apparently that was sent to the Department 

 of Commerce to provide an estimate of the costs involved in this 

 legislation. The Department of Commerce has taken no other position 

 on this legislation, but the report is still full or reports from the De- 

 partment of the Interior, a representative of which Department ap- 

 parently appeared before the committee as it made its case, and that the 

 Department of Interior must have some jurisdiction or other, and now 

 asks for this amendment. 



What is the reason that we do not have a report from the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce as such ? 



Mr. Lennon. I consider that a report, which is signed — I believe you 

 will find it. I think you said, on page 63 of the report ? 



Mr. AspiNALL. It is on page 53 of the report. 

 K Mr. Lennon. On page 53 of the report where the Department of 



