V. SENATE REPORT 93-1362 ON S. 3922, THE COASTAL ZONE 

 MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1974 



Calendar No. 1287 



9->i) Congress ) SENATE j Report 



2d Session \ \ No. 1);^-1862 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS 



OF 1974 



December 17, 1974. — Ordered to be printed 



Mr. HoLLiNGS, from the Committee on Commerce, 

 submitted the following 



REPORT 



[To accompany S. 3922] 



The Committee on Commerce, to Avhich was referred the bill (S. 

 3'92ii), to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to provide 

 more flexibility in the allocation of administrative grants to coastal 

 States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports 

 favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill 

 do pass. 



Purpose and Brief Description 



The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-583) 

 was designed to provide assistance, both financial and technical, to 

 State and local governments for developing and managing State 

 coastal zone management programs. Grants available under the Act 

 consist of three types : management program development grants 

 (section 305), administrative grants (section 306), and estuarine sanc- 

 tuary grants (section 312). 



S. 3922 is designed to deal with some of the technical problems ex- 

 perienced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

 in the initial stages of the implementation of the Act and to increase 

 the effectiveness of the program in providing necessary assistance to 

 coastal States for planning for coastal impacts of energy-related de- 

 velopment on the Outer Continental Shelf. The bill makes four tech- 

 nical changes in the Act to allow for a more effective allocation of grant 

 assistance under sections 305 and 30G ; to extend the operation of bot]i 

 sections to compensate for the loss of a year in grant assistance and 



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