704 



Mr. Bellmon. The table on page 51, which sho^ys appropriations 

 for the fiscal years ending 1977 and beyond, shows a total cost of this 

 bill of $2,129* billion. That figure then would be reduced by roughly 

 one-half? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. No, sir. I think that the chairman of the Budget 

 Committee cited it accurately. Those do not have to do with outlays 

 but only authorizations, and it could go that high over a 10-year period. 

 Mr. MusKiE. On that point, the Appropriations Connnittee, of 

 course, makes the funding decisions, and the Budget Committee for 

 each year is in a position to recommend outlay totals to the Appropria- 

 tions Committee on this program. 

 Mr. HoLLiNGS. That is correct. 



Mr. Bellmon. Is there an anticipated cost of the program is mj 

 •question. 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. The anticipated cost of the program is at a one-third 

 level of the particular authorization for the first year. 



Mr. Bellmon. So this figure of $2.1 billion then would be more like 

 $700 million. 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. Well, that $2.1 billion gets down, Senator Bellmon, 

 to the 10th year that is projected out. 



Mr. Bellmon. What I am trying to get at is what the costs will likely 

 loe over 10 years. 



Mr. MusKiE. The figure we have, may I say to the Senator, of the 

 Budget staff is a budget estimated amount of $2 billion. 

 Mr. Bellmon. Is this $2 billion figure accurate ? 

 Mr. HoLLiNGS. Yes. 



Mr. MusKiE. Mr. President, the haste with which the Department of 

 the Interior is approaching the search for oil and natural gas off the 

 U.S. coastline makes it essential that we revise the Coastal Zone Man- 

 agement Act of 1972. 



The new offshore leasing schedule which Interior officials are trying 

 to follow will create new problems for coastal States. At a minimum, 

 «ome of these States must cope with the arrival of drilling crews and 

 their families, with the building of new staging and construction 

 areas, and with the strains that these will put on transportation net- 

 works and public services. At a maximum, the new ventures could 

 mean, oil spills, damage to beaches and estuaries, and increased air 

 pollution. 



The States are entitled to help to plan for and pay for the conse- 

 quences that offshore development will bring and S. 586 will provide 

 that help. 



The help is made available in two ways. The bill increases funds 

 that are available under existing law to help States plan and adminis- 

 ter coastal protection programs. It adds to existing law a special fund 

 to help States cope with offshore oil development so long as offshore 

 oil impacts are treated as part of its coastal zone management plan. The 

 bill authorizes nearly $400 million for loans and grants during fiscal 

 1976. But it does so in a way that will prevent States which are mak- 

 ing claims for help from turning the program into what the Com- 

 merce Committee calls in its report "a bureaucratic maze or windfall 

 profits for consulting firms." 



This is an important bill, not only for the job it sets out to do 

 directly but for the larger problems it represents. As Senator from 



