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With a consensus of 100 percent of the subcommittee and the full 

 committee, I just frankly do not believe that we ought to anticipate 

 what may happen sometime in the future. I can say frankly that it is 

 an administration amendment, if you please, and this committee was 

 given today at 12 :10 information that suggested that they adjust the 

 cost on an annual basis from what was originally in our bill to meet 

 the possibility that sometime in the future we may have actual land 

 use legislation. We were prepared to do this, and this was the ad- 

 ministration's position; not the position of the Department of the 

 Interior or the Department of Commerce. It is approved by_ the Office 

 of Management and Budget, but unfortunately a majority of the 

 Members reacted, I am told now, and I am going to repeat it, that 

 there was a lobbying campaign and some of the Members from some 

 of the costal States — I sliall not call their names — told me that the 

 American Petroleum Institute started to work today just before noon, 

 so here we are and so the world goes around. 



But I do suggest there is no purpose in adopting this particular 

 amendment. 



Mr. Garmatz. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the gentleman 

 from Iowa, is this so-called administration amendment from the ad- 

 ministration, the Nixon administration ? 



Mr. Ktl.. It is. 



Mr. Garmatz. It is ? 



Mr. Ktl. Yes. 



Mr. Garmatz. Signed by whom? Who suggested this amendment? 



Mr. Kyl. I have, as I noted a moment ago, a letter from the Council 

 on Environmental Quality. 



Mr. Garmatz. That was the other amendment from Kogers Morton, 

 Secretary of the Interior. AVliose amendment is this ? 



Mr. Kyl. This amendment has the concurrence of the Council on En- 

 vironmental Quality. 



]*Jr. Garmatz. Is that the administration ? Is that the Nixon admin- 

 istration you are speaking about or just one branch of the admin- 

 istration ? 



Mr. Kyl. I think the gentleman understands the Council on En- 

 vironmental Quality — 



Mr. Garmatz. I understand the difference between one part of the 

 administration and the administration itself; yes. Are you speaking 

 ?i!>out the Kepublican administration as a whole or just one department 

 of the administration? Are you speaking about Rogers Morton, Secre- 

 tary of the Interior ? Is that the administration ? 



^Ir. Kyl. A few moments ago 



Mr. Garmatz. If the gentleman does not wish to answer the question, 

 I will yield back the balance of my time. 



Mr. Kyl. I would l)e happy to answer the question. 



]VIr. Lennox. Mr. Cbainnan, I urge the rejection of the amendment. 



INIr. AsriNALL. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the necessary num- 

 ber of words. 



I want the gentleman from Iowa to have tlie opportunity of answer- 

 ing the question of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Garmatz). 



