II. HOUSE REPORT 93-1587 ON H.R. 16215, THE COASTAL 

 ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1974 



93d Congress ) HOUSE OF REPEESENTATIVES ( Report 



U Session f 1 No. 93-1587 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS 



Decembeb 13, 1974. — Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

 state of the Union and ordered to be printed 



Mrs. Sullivan, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish- 

 eries, submitted the following 



REPORT 



[To accompany H.R. 16215] 



The committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to which was 

 referred the bill (H.R. 16215), to amend the Coastal Zone Manage- 

 ment Act of 1972, to provide more flexibility in the allocation of ad- 

 ministrative grants to coastal States, and for other purposes, having 

 considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment 

 and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. 



The amendment is as follows : 



Strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the 

 following : 



That the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 1280) is amended as 

 follows : 



(1) Subsection (e) of section 305 is amended by changing the period at the 

 end of the subsection to a colon and by adding immediately thereafter the fol- 

 lowing : ''And provided further, That the Secretary sliall waive the application 

 of the 1 per centum minimum requirement as to any grant under this section, 

 when the coastal State involved requests such a waiver.". 



(2) Subsection (b) of section 306 is amended by deleting all after "relevant 

 factors :", and by inserting in lieu thereof ''Provided, That no annual grant made 

 under this section shall be in excess of $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, in excess 

 of $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, nor in excess of $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 : 

 Provided further. That no annual grant made under this section shall be less 

 than 1 per centum of the total amount appropriated to carry out the purposes of 

 this section: And provided further. That the Secretary shall waive the applica- 

 tion of the 1 per centum minimum requirement as to any grant under this section, 

 when the coastal State involved requests such a waiver.". 



(3) Subsection (a) of section 315 is amended— 



(A) by amending item (1) to read as follows: 



"(1) the sum of $9,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 

 1973, and June 30, 1974, and the sum of $12,000,000 for each of the three 

 succeeding fiscal years, for grants under section 305, to remain available 

 until expended ;" and 



(B) by inserting, in item (3), after "fiscal year ending June 30, 1974," 

 the following : "and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years,". 



(531) 



