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Mr. Johnston. I might add that our distinguished colleague from 

 "Wyoming (Mr. Hansen) offered an amendment in the Committee on 

 Interior and Insular Affairs to our OCS bill relative to all the strip 

 mining that is going to occur in his State and out in the West. 



That amendment had great sympathy in our committe, and was re- 

 jected on a close vote, not because we were against the amendment, but 

 because the matter needs to go through the process of introducing a 

 bill, having hearings, and proving a record, which I am sure can be 

 done. We cannot cure all the problems of the world in one bill. Re- 

 cognizing that this is a coastal zone bill, where hearings have been held 

 in the Committee on Commerce for a long time, several years in fact, 

 and in the Interior Committee for a period of months, is not to say 

 that we will not be sympathetic to reforms in other parts of the 

 countiT. 



]Mr. Ste\-exs. Mr. President, will the Senator from Louisiana yield ? 



Mr. JoHNSTOx. I believe I was yielded to by the Senator from Utah, 

 and that he has the floor. 



Mr. Hansen. Mr. President, a parliamentary inquiry. 



The Presiding Office. The Senator will state it. 



Mr. Hansen. "Who has the floor ? 



The Presiding. Officer. The Senator from South Carolina has the 

 floor. 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. Mr. President, I yield for a minute to our distin- 

 guished chairman, the Senator from Washington (Mr. Magnuson) . 



Mr. Magnuson. Mr. President, having been associated with this 

 matter for a number of years 



Mr. Stevens. Mr. President, who has the floor at this time ? 



The Presiding Officer. The Senator from Washington has the 

 floor. 



Mr. Magnuson. Having been associated with this matter for some 

 years now, I wish to make a statement for the record affirming my 

 support for this bill, and to compliment all of those who have worked 

 so hard over the years, in hearings, with witnesses, and in conferences, 

 particularly the Senator from South Carolina, the Senator from 

 Alaska, and the Senators on my colleague, Senator Jackson's 

 committee. 



I hope that we will adopt this bill. I have listened with a great deal 

 of interest to what the others have to say about the possible exten- 

 sion of this measure to inland States, and I hope they will introduce 

 that sort of bill at a proper time. 



Mr. IMoss. I will. 



Mr. Magnuson. But what we are dealing with here, basically, is that 

 if all the States would be included now, with regard to the things we 

 are goinff to put into this bill, there would not be too much of a problem 

 for tlie States, but we are dealing with great uncertainty as to the use 

 those States would make of the funds. It is a different type of thing 

 with coastal States with the Coastal Zone Management Act. 



I snrelv would support another bill similar to this that would ap]ily 

 to inland States which the Senators have been talking about now for 

 the last half hour. 



So. Mr. President, I wish to register my wholehearted support for 

 S. 58P), the Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments of 1975, which 

 is now before the Senate for consideration. I urge my colleagues to ap- 



