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will be voting on this bill vvlio may not have read the report, I want 

 to briefly answer the qnestion or, in actuality advise them, that this 

 question was raised, fully explored and debated and finally decided 

 by the 91st Congress. 



The Stratton Commission report in 1969, "Our Nation and the 

 Sea," work done in conjunction with it and work done by Congress 

 prior to, and after it, fully and completely established, even to the 

 satisfaction of doubters, that the coastal zone of the Nation comprised 

 of land and water, including ocean waters, estuaries, coastal wet- 

 lands, and immediately adjacent dry lands constitute one single and 

 complete ecological system which is separate and distinct from in- 

 land areas. It must be managed as a w^hole in accordance with sepa- 

 rate and distinct principles in order to protect and preserve all and 

 every part of that unique area. 



Decisions for facility sitings are an example of the decisions which 

 must be made for the coastal zone based upon completely ditlej ent con- 

 siderations as would exist for inland areas. 



For the edification of some of our newer ISIembers, and to refresh 

 the memories of others, I would point out that one of the times the 

 reason for providing different management systems for the coastal 

 zone and for inland ai-eas has come to the fore, is in connection v/ith 

 national land use legislation conceived by Senator Jackson and the 

 Interior Committee and sometimes supported by the administration. 

 The most serious of considerations which can be given a matter tool' 

 place in connection with the reason for having a separate land-use 

 bill for inland areas and a coastal zone management law for the coastal 

 areas. The result of those considerations was an education and under- 

 standing of how scientifically different the coastal zone is and why 

 it nuist be under a separate management regime. The current land use 

 bills now recognize that there should be such a separate planning and 

 management systesn for the coastal zone because of this education and 

 understanding. 



At this time, of course, there is another reason for providing for 

 energy facility siting and the imoacts therefrom scparatelv in the 

 Coastal Zone Management Act. This is the fact that the CZM Act 

 lias been on the books for ?> years and that all coastal States have 

 voluntarily elected to participate in it. The act itself, and the plans 

 and programs of many of the States pursuant to it, already provide 

 mechanisms for energy facilities in the coastal zone. 



It would be wasteful, duplicative and chaotic to not use these exist- 

 ing mechanisms. S. 586 strengthens them and adds complementing 

 provisions. 



Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee amend- 

 ment in the nature of a substitute be agreed to. and tliat tJie bill as 

 thus amended be treated as original {Qxt for the pur]iose of further 

 amendment. 



Tlie Presiding Officer. Without obiectiou, it is so ordcT'cd. 



Mr. PIoLLiNGS. I request that the Senator from Massachusetts (INIr. 

 Brooke) be added as a cosponsor of S. 586. 



The Presuhno Ovvuvv.. Without obiection. it is so ordered. 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. I would like at this time to publicly thank the Sena- 

 tor from Alaska (Mr. Stevens) for his complete awareness and under- 



