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On the contrary, this bill allocates planning and development grants 

 in accordance, Senator, with an overall plan. 



If we can get the State of Arkansas — and I do not believe I can get 

 the entire State of South Carolina to agree to that overall plan 



Mr. Talmadge. Mr. President, will the Senator yield ? 



Mr. HoLLixGS. I will be glad to yield. 



Mr. Talmadge. I certainly hope the State of Georgia does not agree 

 to an overall plan where they have to come to Washington to get per- 

 mission to build a chickenliouse on a farm. 



Mr. Rollings.. Exactly. We do not have to come all the way, and 

 I could not make a more eloquent argument than the one that has 

 already been made on my question from the comment by my dis- 

 tinguished friend from Georgia. 



It is not coastal versus interior States. It is this coastal area versus 

 other areas, which are 90 percent of my State, which I cannot 

 get them to agree to. 



Mr. Bumpers. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. Yes. 



!Mr. Bumpers. How can the State of Arkansas or the State of 

 Georgia get any money for the chickenhouse without applying for 

 it to the Secretary? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS That is exactly right. They have to apply in accord- 

 ance with an overall plan. Congress has never passed that national 

 land use law. But Congress has passed overwhelmingly, with only 

 12 dissenting votes in the House, a plan for that coastal region I 

 have just described. 



Mr. Bumpers. But under this bill we are weighing now there is 

 not any way for any aid to be given a State for any impact or plan- 

 ning, either one, unless they apply for a grant from the Secretary, 

 and unless he approves it; is that correct? 



Mr. HoLLiXGS. You ha\'e got to pass a land use plan first for the 

 remainder of the States, 90 percent of the remaining portion of 

 the State of South Carolina and 100 percent remaining of Arkansas, 

 a particular State land use plan. 



Mr, Bumpers, I am not talking about the coastal zone manage- 

 ment plan ; I know that has to be approved also, does it not ? 



Mr, HoLLiNGS, That is right. A coastal zone management plan 

 has to be approved by the Federal Government. 



Mr. Bumpers. Once that plan is approved and any kind of energy 

 facility is tlien built or manufactured in that State that could impact 

 that coastal zone you do not get any aid automatically. You have got 

 to apply for it, and you have got to send a letter to Washington to 

 get it, do you not? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS, Well, there are two provisions. There is an auto- 

 matic grant with respect to offshore oil and gas drilling, may I say to 

 my distinguished friend, which says should either oil or gas be devel- 

 oped offshore and landed onshore, or developed adjacent to that State 

 on the Outer Continental Shelf, then there is an automatic grant. 

 But the $200 million now in accordance with the amendment of the 

 Senator from Louisiana, has to be for planning and adverse import 

 compensation in accordance, as the Senator from Arkansas says, 

 with an application to the Secretary. That is right. 



