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MOTION OFFERED BY MR. LENNON 



Mr. Lennon, Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion. 



The Clerk read as follows : 



Mr. L,ennon moves to strike out all after the enacting clause of S. 

 3507 and to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.E. 14146, as 

 passed, as follows : 



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 Development, 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 follo^ving new title : 



"TITLE III— MANAGEMENT OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"short title 



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

 1972'. 



"congressional 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 natural, commercial, recreational, 

 industrial, and esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to the pres- 

 ent 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 resources and fossil fuels, 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 vulnerable 

 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 ; 



"(f) Special natural and scenic characteristics are being damaged by ill-planned 

 development that threatens these values ; 



"(g) In light of comjpeting demands and the urgent need to protect and give 

 high priority to natural systems in the coastal zone, present state and local in- 

 stitutional arrangements for planning and regulating land and water uses in 

 such areas are inadequate ; and 



"(h) The key to more effective protection and use of the land and water re- 

 sources of the coastal zone is to encourage the states to exercise their full au- 

 thority over the lands and watei-s in the coastal zone by assisting the states, in 

 cooperation ^ith Federal and local governments and other vitally affected inter- 

 ests, in developing land and water use programs for the coastal zone, including^ 

 unified policies, criteria, standards, methods, and processes for dealing with land 

 and water use decisions of more than local significance. 



"declaration of policy 



"Sec. 303. The Congress declares that it is the national policy (a) to preserve, 

 protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance, the resources of the 

 Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations, (b) to encourage and 

 assist the states to exercise effectively their responsibilities in the coastal zone 

 through the development and implementation of management programs to achieve 

 wise use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone giving full consid- 

 eration to ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values as well as to needs 



