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duction of federally owned minerals be allotted for public facilities 

 and services, and providing for priority treatment of applicants with 

 impacts resulting from exploration and production of energy facilities. 

 Eiforts were introduced but not adopted to include noncoastal States 

 in the treatment of the bill and to eliminate facilities for equipment 

 manufacture or assembly from classification as energy facilities. 



House action on its major coastal bill came at the beginning of the 

 second session of the 94th Congress. The Committee on INIerchant 

 Marine and Fisheries reported (H. Eept. 94-878) H.K. 3981 on 

 ]\Iarch 4, 1976. The report gave emphasis to provisions adding new 

 requirements for State coastal zone programs in the development 

 phase, to the coastal energy activity impact program, interstate co- 

 ordination, and research and training assistance. On March 11, 197G, 

 the House of Representatives under H. Res. 1083, passed H.R. 3981 by 

 a vote of 370 to 14. During the course of debate, Committee amend- 

 ments omitting langage in the Federal consistency requirements and 

 requiring hearings in cases of disputes was agreed to. The passage of 

 H.R. 3981 was vacated and S. 586, after being similarly amended to 

 contai:i the language of the House bill, was passed in lieu. 



The conference committee, composed of Representatives Leonor K. 

 Sullivan, Thomas X. Downing, Paul G. Rogers, John M. Murphy, 

 Pierre S. DuPont, and David C. Treen in the House, and Senators 

 Warren G. Magnson, Ernest F. Hollings, John Y. Tunney, Ted 

 Stevens, and Lowell Weicker in the Senate, submitted its report (in H. 

 Rept. 94-1298 and S. Rept. 94-987) on June 24, 1976. The conference 

 substitute followed the House amendment in its definition of "coastal 

 energy activity," "local government" and Outer Continental Shelf 

 energy activity. The provision for the inclusion of leasing in the "con- 

 sistency" provision was added from the Senate bill, thus requiring 

 approval of leasing by each State with an approved coastal zone man- 

 agement pro,o:ram. The conference substitute went fuither than earlier 

 lanflfuaofe had. applying the consistency reqirement to the earlier stages 

 of leasing such as exploratory stages, thus, assuring the States full 

 information at the earliest possible opportunity. The House formula 

 for determining a State's share of the coastal energy impact fund was 

 accepted by the conferees. In addition. House language providing for 

 public access to beaches, preservation of islands and for shellfish study 

 Avas agreed to. The conference re})ort was afifreed to bv the Senate on 

 June 29. 1976 and bv the House on June 30, 1976. 



The President signed the Coastal Zone Management Act Amend- 

 ments into law as Public Law 94-370 on July 26. 1976. In his statement 

 at that time, the President urged the Secretary of Commerce to expedi- 

 tiously implement the provisions of the act and noted that the issues 

 of energy and the environment would be of high priority in the yeai's 

 to come. 



