683 



As for treating everybody equally, let us look at the particular prob- 

 lem and not be influenced by the equal treatment plan. If one has a 

 serious problem, he should offer an amendment to give everybody a 

 $1.2 billion hydroelectric navigation project, in the remaining 49 

 States, if he really believes in that equity. 



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



Mr. HoLLiNGS. I yield. 



Mr. Ste\-exs. I emphasize that I oppose the amendment of the Sena- 

 tor from Arkansas because it narrowly constricts what we are trying 

 to do with regard to coastal zone management. It would say that this 

 bill, with regard to the energy-related facilities, would be limited solely 

 to those facilities that are built because of production from the OCS. 



The bill covers all energy facilities and relates to the declaration of 

 policy in the Coastal Zone Management Act which has already passed 

 Congress, in which Congress declared a national policy to preserve, 

 protect, develop and, where possible, restore and enhance the resources 

 of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations. 



We are trying to say that in a coastal zone where there is a special 

 plan for protection not only for the land but also for the oceans olf 

 the land, we are recognizing the Federal responsibility to assist in 

 meeting tliose obligations for impacts in that area ]iot just because they 

 are electrical facilities, nuclear facilities, coal-fired, or any other kind 

 of facilities, but because such facilities are in tlie coastal zone where, 

 unless they are properly planned, they could in fact continue to reduce 

 the viability of the oceans. 



Tliis is related more to the oceans than it is to the people who are in 

 that coastal zone, who are already polluting the oceans. We are saying 

 that all facilities in that area that are related to energy production 

 need proper planning. The governments need to take special action to 

 protect the coastal zone. We are willing to put up the funds, and they 

 come primarily from production from the OCS lands. But tlie actions 

 that the Federal Govermnent will take will be special because the 

 coastal zone has a peculiar relation to the oceans, not because it is a 

 peculiar portion of a coastal State as opposed to the rest of the State 

 or an inland Stat^. 



I hope the Senator from Arkansas will recognize that his amend- 

 ment would so narrow this that the original intent of the Coastal Zone 

 Management Act would be frustrated if we were to say that it applies 

 only to oil and gas protection facilities on shore. It should apply to 

 any activity in the coastal zone that would protect the oceans. Tliose 

 are, in particular, any energ}' -related facilities in the coastal zone. 



Mr. Bumpers. Mr. President, I should like the Senator to hear the 

 language of the bill. It reads : 



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

 mines that such State's coastal zone 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. 



An energy facility can be anji:hing. It can be a coal gasification 

 plant, a coal liquefaction plant, a uranium enrichment plant, a coal- 

 fired generating plant. It can be anything. But the bill does not even 

 stop there. 



Here is a further definition of what an energy facility is. It says it 

 is "a facility or facilities which are or will ]jc lised primarily for the 



