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and federal governments— factors which you emphasized in your testimony before 

 the Senate Interior Committee— clearly must precede any further steps toward 

 offshore drilling in frontier areas. 



I look forward to hearing from you and believe that a full response from the 

 Department can lead to the kind of public participation and public access to 

 information necessary for effective involvement by concerned citizens in the off- 

 shore leasing decision making process. 



Sincerely, _ 



Edward M. Kennedy. 



Mr. Pell. Section 310(c) of the act authorizes a program of grants 

 to State agencies for short-term research and training, with an author- 

 ization of $5 million a year. Could the distinguished chairman provide 

 information on how this research fund will be administered ? How will 

 this research fund be coordinated with the sea grant college programs, 

 many of which include significant coastal zone research conducted in 

 cooperation with State management agencies ? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. It is the intent that these grants be fully coordinated 

 within NOAA with ongoing programs of the sea grant program since 

 the program itself will be administered by NOAA. 



Mr. Pell. I note that the act provides no maximum grant to an in- 

 dividual State agency under section 310(c). Is it anticipated that the 

 research funds will be distributed equally among all of the coastal 

 States? What will be the guidelines in the distribution of these re- 

 search funds? The sea grant legislation provides that no one State 

 shall receive more than 15 percent of the total funds appropriated in 

 any year. 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. The Secretary should develop guidelines so that those 

 States with greatest needs will be appropriately aided. 



Mr. Pell. Under the sea grant college program, Federal grants are 

 on a 2-to-l basis. This legislation provides 80 percent — i-to-l — match- 

 ing grants for research. Is there not the possibility that States doing 

 research under sea grant funds will in effect be penalized by being 

 required to provide greater matching money, in comparison with States 

 seeking research funds under this new provision ? 



Mr. HoLLiNGS. No. I do not think this should be a problem because it 

 is the intent of the committee that this money be used for quick turn- 

 around research, often through the existing sea grant program as ap- 

 propriate, but in no event to set up duplicating efforts. 



Mr. Pell. Mr. President, the Coastal Zone Management Act Amend- 

 ments of 1975, now being considered by the Senate, are vitally im- 

 portant to the future of the coastal zone of our Nation, and essential to 

 the economic and evnironmental well-being of our coastal States. 



The coastal zone has come under increasingly intense pressure as the 

 Nation looks to its coastal areas for new energv sources, for power- 

 plant sites, for ocean transportation and port facilities, for fishery and 

 mineral resources, and for recreational opportunities. 



The Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments are intended to 

 assist the States in meeting the challenge of managing the use of their 

 coastal areas wiselv, prudentlv and in the best interests of the public, 

 in the face of thP5;e intense development pressures. 



Our coastal States desperately need the assistance that would be 

 provided bv this art. As a Senator from a constal Stnte. and as a 

 member of the Senate's National Ocenn Policv Studv. T fully support 

 this expansion of the Coastal Zone Mana^rement Amendment Act to 

 help our States meet the extraordinary challenges that confront them. 



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