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Calendar No. 271 



94th Congress ) SENATE ( Report 



1st Session \ \ No. 94-277 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS 



OF 1975 



July 11 (legislative day, July 10), 1975. — Ordered to be printed 



Mr. HoLLixGS, from the Conimittce on Commerce, 

 submitted the following 



REPORT 



[To accompany S. 586] 



The Committee on Commerce, having; considered the bill (S. 586) to 

 amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize and 

 assist the coastal States to study, plan for, manage, and control the 

 impact of energy resource development and production which aifects 

 the coastal zone, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon 

 with amendments and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. 



Purpose and Brief Descriptiox 



The bill amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 

 U.S.C. 1451-1464) to assist those States facing Outer Continental 

 Shelf (OCS) oil and gas development or other energy -related develop- 

 ments and facilities affecting the coastal zone. Assistance is provided 

 in the form of grants or loans to coastal States from a new Coastal 

 Enei-gy Facility Impact Fund, authorized at $250 million for 3 fiscal 

 years and the 1976 transitional quarter. The fund is available to States 

 receiving or anticipating impacts in their coastal zones from the 

 exploration for or development and production of energy resources, 

 or from the location, construction, expansion or operation of any energy 

 facility requiring a Federal license or permit. U]) to 20 percent of the 

 fund may be used for plaiming grants, and the balance is to be used 

 for funding of up to 100 percent (within the limits of the total funds 

 available) of efforts to reduce, ameliorate or compensate for net 

 adverse impact.s or to provide public facilities and services made neces- 

 sary by the energy facility or resource development activity. 



Funds may be disbursed to States either as grants or as loans, de- 

 pending on whether the impacts are temporary or permanent over the 



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