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The bill also expands the "Federal Consistency" provisions of the 

 1972 Act to include the term "lease" thus giving the States enhanced 

 authority to give final approval to lease sites. 



The bill makes it clear that Outer Continental Shelf leasing is a 

 Federal activity subject to the Federal consistency provision of the 

 Federal coastal zone management program. However, since Califor- 

 nia's coastal plan will not be completed until early next year and the 

 Interior Department plans to lease in October, this pro\'ision may be 

 academic. For this reason, I urge Secretary Hathaway to postpone 

 the lease sales until after the completion of the California coastal plan. 

 Given the industry's stated inability to develop OCS leases rapidly, 

 such a delay would have little impact on the eventual production of 

 needed OCS oil and gas. 



It is a Federal responsibility to provide the States with adequate 

 funding to implement environmental controls. The States producing, 

 landing, and shipping oil will need to be sufficiently compensated for 

 the industrial development of State lands, for bearing the burden of 

 lost recreation sites, for threatened environmental air and land qual- 

 ity standards and for giving up prior discretionary land use policies 

 to meet the requirements of the Federal energy policies. 



We must insure that the States are adequately represented and have 

 a strong voice in all matters affecting their coastline. Therefore, I am 

 offering an amendment to provide for the equal representation of State 

 and Federal interests on the coastal impact review board. 



The Secretary of Interior has not waivered on his decision to begin 

 lease sales totaling 1.6 million acres off the coastline of southern Calif- 

 ornia, soon to be followed by bids off the Alaska and Atlantic coast- 

 lines. 



Thus far, the Department, in its decisionmaking process, has call- 

 ously disregarded the interests and views of the people and elected 

 officials from the coastal States. 



However, as the Commerce Committee report on this bill indicates, 

 our shorelines could suffer severe enviornmental and economic de- 

 gradation if adjacent coastal development is not properly controlled. 



For example : More than 50 percent of the population of the United 

 States lives in counties bordering on the oceans and Great Lakes, pres- 

 ently 40 percent of the industrial complexes are in estuarine areas and 

 Louisiana lost over 5,000 square miles of wetlands to support systems 

 for the OCS drilling operations. 



In recent testimony in a joint hearing on this matter in the House, 

 representatives from the Scottish coastal zone management commis- 

 sion, stressed that they minimized environmental impacts and citizen 

 protest because they had local management programs in operation 

 before leasing began. 



There is no denying the anticipated financial burden States will 

 to sustain to provide adequate support systems for the anticipated in- 

 dustrial development without the funding provisions specified in this 

 legislation. 



In California alone, the State's Coastal Conservation Commission 

 found that 90 percent of the total petroleum refining capacity of that 

 State is located within 10 miles of the coast. New refineries will require 

 as much as 1.000 to 1,700 acres for each industrial development and 

 buffer zone. Furthermore, a new refinery with the minor capacity of 



