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need for coastal States to develop planning mechanisms to deal with 

 deepwater ports, offshore oil and gas development, refinery construc- 

 tion, and other ramifications of increased offshore and onshore devel- 

 opment. Everyone — environmental groups, oil companies, and even 

 the Department of the Interior — is now pointing to the Coastal Zone 

 Management Act as the solution to controlling secondary impacts of 

 offshore development so as to minimize environmental damage. It is 

 a widely recognized fact that the land-side effects of offshore develop- 

 ment are the greatest danger to the environment, not oil spills. 



The amendments I propose today will insure that the Coastal Zone 

 Management Act continues to serve the interest of the States and 

 the Nation in the best possible way. 



Mr. President, because of time constraints under which most coastal 

 States are working to develop their coastal zone plans, I anticipate 

 that the Senate and the House will act on this bill before the adjourn- 

 ment of the 93d Congress. 



Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a breakdown of how 

 the $7.4 million in section 305 program development grants for fiscal 

 year 1974 were allocated to the various States, along with the names 

 and addresses of participating State agencies, be printed at this point 

 in the Kecord. I also ask that the text of the bill be printed in the 

 Record. 



There being no objection, the bill and material was ordered to be 

 printed in the Record, as follows : 



S. 3922 



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

 of America in Congress assembled. That the Coastal Zone Management Act of 

 1972 (86 Stat. 1280) is amended as follows: 



(1) Subsection (h) of section 305 is amended by deleting "1977" and by 

 inserting in lieu thereof "1979." 



(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 exc*ess 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 and succeeding fiscal years : 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, unless at the discretion 

 of a state a lesser amount will sufiice.". 



Section 315 is amended to read as follows : 



"authorization of appropriations 



"Sec. 315. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated — 



(1) the sums 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 five succeeding 

 fiscal years, for grants under section 305, to remain available until expended; 



(2) such sums, not to exceed $30,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1974, and for each of the fiscal years 1975 through 1979, as may be necessary, 

 for grants under section 306 to remain available until expended : and 



(3) such sums, not to exceed $6 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1974, and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years as may be necessary, for 

 grants under section 312, to remain available initil expended. 



"(b) There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed 

 .$3,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the .six succeeding fiscal years, 

 as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to the administration 

 of this title." 



