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liuge Federal subsidy for this. I would like to see the saving of tax 

 dollars and let States have a little more independence. 



I am for legislation that is going to address the impact problem along 

 the coasts. 



What we have disagreed with in this matter is provision for impact 

 aid with respect to powerplants or oil wells or anything that in any 

 other States would be considered normal development. Just because a 

 State has a shoreline next to it, it means they get special help under 

 this legislation. I ao-ree with the Senator from Arkansas that that is not 

 fair. 



Mr. Ste\^ns. This is for oil wells outside of State jurisdiction on 

 the Outer Continental Shelf. 



Mr. Glenn. That is not correct. That is the language we wanted this 

 bill to apply to. We wanted to make it apply only to impact from off- 

 shore development, but it does not do that. Under the bill, you can 

 have interior development in your coastal State, and so long as there is 

 any impact, the Federal Government can take care of it. 



Mr. STEVENS.The Senator is talking about 308, not the coastal zone. 



Mr. Bumpers. It would probably be time consuming and perhaps 

 not very effective to explain my amendment, because I have really ex- 

 plained my feelings already. 



Before I get into this, Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays 

 on the amendment. 



The Pkesiding Oeficek (Mr. Brock). Is tliere a sufficient second? 



There is a sufficient second. 



The yeas and nays were ordered. 



Mr. BiTMPERs. Mr. President, this amendment changes section 308, 

 which presently reads in pertinent part : 



The Secretary is authorized to make a grant to a coastal State, if he deter- 

 mines that such States's coastal bone has been, or is likely to be, impacted by the 

 exploration for, or the development or production of, energy resources or by the 

 location construction, expansion, or operation of an energy facility. 



In the bill, "energy facility" is described as electric generating 

 plants, fuel plants, uranium enrichment plants, pipeline facilities, pe- 

 troleum refineries, and so on. 



In other words, an energy facility is anything that has to do witli 

 coal, oil, gas, untility plants, and so on. 



Mj^ objection, of course, is not to what I thought the intent of this 

 bill was, that is, to assist coastal-zone States with any impact they 

 miofht sustain resulting from the exploration for and development of 

 offshore energy resources, I have only been here about 6 months, but 

 my ears become better attuned every day, and I can hear the train com- 

 ing on this amendment. Nevertheless, I feel very strongly about the 

 principal, as a matter of public policy, of what we are doing here. 



The other night, at a meeting of the Committee on Interior and 

 Insular Affairs, the distinguished Senator from Wyoming (^Tr. Han- 

 sen) offered an amendment to the offshore drilling bill which vrould 

 have given impact aid to all States who sustained any kind of im- 

 pact as a result of the exploration for and development of energy re- 

 sources within their State. That is extremely important to the Senatoi'S 

 from Wyoming and Montana, who know that their States are about 

 to be strip mined for coal. I am sympathetic. I was sympathetic tlio 



