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By Mr. Hollixgs (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Tunney, Mr. 

 Mathias, and Mr. Williams) : 



S. 586. A bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 

 to authorize and assist the coastal States to study, plan for, manage, 

 and control the impact of energy resource development and production 

 which affects the coastal zone, and for other purposes. Referred to the 

 Committee on Commerce. 



Mr. Rollings. Mr. President, last week I introduced, along with 

 13 of my colleagues, a bill amending the Outer Continental Shelf 

 Lands Act. The purpose of that bill (S. 426) is t-o revise and update 

 our national policies with regard to the development of offshore oil and 

 gas resources to control as much as possible the adverse impacts and 

 to assure the public an adequate return for their resources. 



S. 426 is the first in a two-bill legislative package developed by the 

 staff of the National Ocean Policy Study on this subject. Since the 

 study was first established by the Senate last February, it has been 

 assessing the total spectrum of coastal economic, social, and environ- 

 mental impacts expected from offshore development and the proper 

 role of State coastal zone management programs in the overall OCS 

 decisionmaking process. This legislation, and the bill I am introducing 

 today, contains what we feel is the correct approach to solving the 

 |)roblems that confront the coastal States as a result of the accelerated 

 leasing program. 



The bill I am introducing today, entitled "The Coastal Zone Envi- 

 ronment Act of 1975,*' is the second bill in the study's legislative pack- 

 age. It complements S. 426 by providing the means for assisting coastal 

 States in the amelioration of the socioeconomic and environmental 

 problems resulting from the location of support facilities onshore 

 needed to service the expiration and development activities on the 

 OCS and to assure consistency of these activities with State coastal 

 zone management programs. In addition, the bill contains provisions 

 to strengthen the Coastal Zone Management Act in areas that are pres- 

 ently being given little or no attention, such as the need for protection 

 of and access to public beaches, and the preservation of coastal islands. 



Mr. President, the citizens of our coastal States — including those in 

 the Gulf of Mexico — realize that offshore oil development requires a 

 variety of lai'ge-scale developments onshore, including such things as 

 pipeline landfalls, harbor supply bases, refineries, tank farms, and 

 petrochemical plants, to name a few. Furthermore, skilled and un- 

 skilled workers must be brought into coastal areas to build these facil- 

 ities, and to man them ; and these workers will, in turn, increase the 

 demand for housing, schools, roads, and other public services: It is 

 no secret that the burden of accommodating all of this activity — the 

 planning, the raising of additional revenues, the location of proper 

 sites for facilities — will fall squarely on the shoulders of local and 

 State governments that are alreadv having financial difficulties. I do 

 not believe there is any question that Federal assistance is needed to 

 help States deal with these extra burdens and responsibilities. 



The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 will be the focal point 

 for this new assistance effort, because it is the only program in exist- 

 ence at the Federal level which has as its purpose the development of 

 State and local land and water management programs for coastal 



