APPENDIX 



[S. 2802, 91st Cong., 1st Sess.] 

 A BILL To assist the States in establishing coastal zone management programs 



Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, 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 October 15, 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 

 1121 et seq. ) , is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new titles : 



"TITLE III— MULTIPLE USE OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



"short title 



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

 1969'. 



"statement of policy 



"Sec. 302. The Congress finds and declares that the coastal zone of the 

 United States is rich in a variety of natural, commercial, industrial, recrea- 

 tional, and esthetic resources of immediate and potential value to the present 

 and future development of our Nation; that unplanned or poorly planned de- 

 velopment of these resources has destroyed or has the potential of destroying, 

 the basic natural environment of such areas and has restricted the most 

 efiicient and beneficial utilization of such areas ; that it is the policy of Congress 

 to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible to restore, the resources of 

 the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations through compre- 

 hensive and coordinated long-range planning and management designed to 

 produce the maximum benefit for society from such coastal areas. 



"definitions 



"Sec. 303. For the purposes of this title — 



"(a) The term 'coastal zone' means lands, bays, estuaries, and waters within 

 the territorial sea or the seaward boundary, whichever is the farther offshore, 

 of the various coastal States and States bordering the Great Lakes and extend- 

 ing inland to the landward extent of maritime influences. 



"(b) The term 'territorial sea' means a belt of sea adjacent to the coast of 

 the United States and extending three geographic miles offshore from the base- 

 line and within which the United States exercises sovereign rights, subject to 

 the right of innocent passage. 



"(c) The term 'baseline' means the reference line from which the outer 

 limits of the territorial sea and other offshore zones are measured by the United 

 States Government. 



"(d) The term 'seaward boundary of the various coastal States' means a line 

 drawn three geographic miles offshore the baseline or nine geographic miles 

 offshore the baseline in the cases of Texas and Florida in the" Gulf of [Mexico, 

 or such other seaward boundaries as may be recognized by the United States 

 Government. 



"(e) The term 'coastal State' means any State bordering on the Atlantic, 

 Pacific, or Gulf Coast or the Great Lakes, and includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin 

 Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. 



"(f) The term 'landward extent of maritime influences' means such amount 

 of land running back from the high water mark which in contemplation of 

 human and natural ecology may be considered to come under the direct and 

 immediate influence of the adjacent sea or lake. 



(463) 



