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If the Senator will yield, I will put this time on the bill. If anyone 

 is interested in this particular amendment, on pages 11 and 12 of our 

 report we referred specifically to the Brown and Root Corp. of Hous- 

 ton, Texas, that, on a 2,000-acre plot in Virginia, plans to build oil 

 production platforms to be used offshore; and we discussed in the 

 report the onshore impact, the number of employees, the additional 

 jobs, and everything else. 



Now, what my distinguished friend requests in his amendment is 

 tJiat we strike exactly the language that would provide for that particu- 

 lar offshore platform construction, by knocking out, on page 12, the 

 language — 



which are or will be used primarily for the manufacture, production, or assembly 

 of equipment, machinery, products, or devices which are or will be directly 

 involved in any activity described in paragraph (1) — 



which has to do with energy facilities. That is exactly what we had in 

 mind. 



We have been into this very thoroughly, Mr. President, but somehow 

 my friend from Arkansas has got the idea that manufacturing facili- 

 ties such as platform construction sites are not adverse impacts, and 

 he resists and objects, in these amendments, to the fundamentals of 

 the Coastal Zone Management Act, and then, in the next breath, says, 

 "I am for the Coastal Zone Management Act." 



That just cannot be, if he is asking that we knock it out. 



The Senator and I have been working on an ad hoc committee for 

 energy legislation in this Congress, and we have been agreeing right 

 down the line. The provisions in here would take care of every major 

 coastal planning decision involving the Baltimore Canyon, the Georgia 

 Embayment, and all those offshore drilling locations. We have got to 

 go off there and get that oil and get that gas, but now the Senator 

 comes along and says, "Just because I am in Arkansas, and I do not 

 have any offshore drilling, and do not have any building of platforms 

 or anything else, let the States absorb the impact." 



We are trying to facilitate getting energ3\ Even the administration 

 is for this. 



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



Mr. HoLLiNGS. I yield. 



Mr. Long. The Senator from Louisiana was never enthusiastic about 

 the bill. I am not sure Louisiana is going to participate in the plan. It 

 may not be of any benefit at all to Louisiana. 



But if we are going to consider anyone with regard to impact, I 

 would think the little city of Morgan City, La., ought to be able to 

 l^articipate, because, on a per capita basis, there is no community in 

 America, in the old 48 States, that is doing more to try to help with the 

 energy problem than Morgan City, La. 



That community is consecrated almost exclusively to trying to pro- 

 vide platforms, equipment, and services to people who go out on the 

 Continental Shelf, sometimes staying out there for a month hand 

 running, to tiy to produce some energy. 



They have all kinds of problems, and if anyone should be entitled to 

 some impact aid, because they are trying to develop some energy, I 

 would think it would be the people of Morgan City, La. With the 

 possible exception of those people up there in Prudhoe Bay, the people 



