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at Morgan City, La., would be more entitled to participate than anyone 

 else I Imow of. 



Some of the platforms that are built and are fabricated, floated out, 

 and put in place on the Continental Shelf are higher than the Wash- 

 ington Monument, and they are enormously expensive. When those 

 people work to do all that, and they have all kinds of headaches — there 

 was a syndicated article that appeared in the Washington newspaper 

 just recently discussing all the problems people have down in Morgan 

 City, La. — you would think, if we were going to let anyone participate 

 in that program, we would let those people participate. I cannot un- 

 deretand, for the life of me, where, in a community where most of the 

 workers are producing energy and materials for use on the Continen- 

 tal Shelf, why they would not be entitled to participate. 



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



Mr. Long. I yield. 



Mr. Bumpers. Subparagraph (1), just above the second subpara- 

 graph, which I seek to delete, involves new facilities, or additions to 

 existing facilities : "Which are or will be directly used in the extrac- 

 tion, conversion, storage, transfer, processing, or transporting of any 

 energy resource." 



I assume offshore drilling platforms are considered to be used in 

 the extraction of an energy resource, and so I do not seek to eliminate 

 the assembly, the manufacture, or anything else of offshore drilling 

 platforms, because that is covered under subsection ( 1 ) . 



I am seeking to eliminate what I think would play all kinds of mis- 

 chief with the interpretation of this law. 



I have already lost tlie other battle ; perhaps I will lose this one. But 

 I would like to make the point again that subsection (2) says that an 

 energy facility is a facility or an addition to a facility which is or will 

 be used primarily for the manufacture, production, or assembly of 

 equipment, machinery, products, or devices which are or will be di- 

 rectly involved in any activity described in paragraph (1) of this 

 subsection. 



Mr. President, that is not confined to offshore drilling. It is not con- 

 fined to gasification. It is not confined to liquefaction. It does not even 

 eliminate the concrete blocks that miglit be made in the coastal zone 

 States, if those concrete blocks are shipped to Arkansas, as long as 

 thev go into a powerplant there. 



I am saying that section can be interpreted just as liberally as any- 

 one chooses to interpret it. I do not think offshore platforms are af- 

 fected at all. I think they are well covered, in any impact they may 

 have on Morgan City or any other community, under subsection (ij. 



But I make the argument again that I made a moment ago. If you 

 have a Westinghouse or a General Electric plant in a coastal State 

 tliat manufactures turbines, you are entitled to aid, even though those 

 turbines may not be used there. They may be used to fire a coal gener- 

 ating plant in any State in the Nation. 



I do not think that a plant that is outside the coastal zone — and I 

 think this is a distinction that has not been well understood here this 

 afternoon— we are not talking about just the impact on coastal zones, 

 we are talking about something that may take place outside the coastal 

 zone, but could adversely affect the coastal zone. And again, my pri- 



