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This would remove the concern of tlie Committee on Commerce that 

 such fund would duplicate and, perhaps, even conflict with the coastal 

 energy facilities impact fmid and the automatic grant provisions of 

 S. 586. The agreement further provides that, when S. 521 is considered 

 on the floor of the Senate, the committee floor manager for that bill 

 will move to insert section 308 in S. 586 in its entirety in S. 521 so 

 these bills will be consistent on this issue. 



The result would be, Mr. President, a clean division between the 

 responsibilities of the two committees with respect to the administra- 

 tion of Outer Continental Shelf lands on the one hand— which is the 

 Interior Committee's jurisdiction— and coastal zone management is- 

 sues on the other— which fall within the jurisdiction of the Committee 

 on Commerce. 



Once again, on behalf of the Committee on Commerce, we are pleased 

 to work out this agreement with the Committee on Interior and In- 

 sular Affairs respecting one another's areas of jurisdictional respon- 

 sibility, which Senator Jackson has agreed to. 



I know that the principal negotiations today have been carried on 

 by the Senator from Alaska and the Senator from Louisiana. As I 

 understand it, under the amendment of the Senator from Louisiana, 

 we have joined under the coastal impact fund rather than the revenue 

 sharing fund originally proposed in S. 521. Is that correct? 



Mr. JoHNSTOX. It was not really a revenue sharing fund. It was an 

 impact fund. 



Mr. HoLLiNCxS. All right, an impact fund. This agreement would sup- 

 plant the fund in S. 521. 



Mr. Johnston. Really, what we would intend to do, would be to 

 come forward in the OCS bill, with the same language, realizing that 

 one of these bills may not come through, but that the language which 

 would be in the bill of the Senator from South Carolina also would 

 be in the OCS bill and would supplant the language dealing with the 

 same subject in the OCS bill. 



Mr. Stevens. Mr. President, I believe that the suggestion of the 

 Senator from Louisiana, in this amendment, is a good one. I have 

 joined with him, Senator Jackson, Senator Hollings and StMiator ^lag- 

 nuson in this amendment and T hope that the Senate will adopt our 

 amendment. It me^ts some of the problems that an existing oil-pro- 

 ducing State, such as Louisiana or Texas or California, vrould face 

 imder our original proposal. It will have no great impact on States 

 such as mine, which liave, at the present time, no OCS pi-oduction. 



AVe have a vast potential off Alaska. I think that the Members of the 

 Senate should be aware of that. Sixty-five percent of the Outer Con- 

 tinental Shelf is off Alaska. Ultimn^-oly. these frontier areas will l)e 

 subject to oil and gas production. The distances are vast and the 

 areas that will be affected by this kind of production sire very small 

 in population. They have no facilities, really, to handle the influx 

 of population that would be aSvSOciated with this kind of development. 

 They have no ability to finance even the planning for this type of 

 development. That is why this bill wnsely has two separate funds. 

 One is the grants and loan fund, which is a purely discretionary fund — 

 it is subject, of course, to the appropriation process. It can be used 

 to meet the planning needs and the actual expenses of those States 

 tliat already have OCS development. 



