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bill, as my colleagues on 'both sides of the committee aisle have seen 

 fit to do. 



Mrs. SuLLivAX. Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time. 



The Chairman. There being no further requests for time, pursuant 

 to the rule, the Clerk will read the committee amendment in the nature 

 of a substitute now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose 

 of amendment. 



The Clerk read as follows : 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Coastal 

 Zone Management Act Amendments of 1975". 



Sec. 2. The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as ameded (16 U.S.C, 1451 

 et seq. ) , is amended as follows : 



(1) Section 302(b) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1451(b)) is amended by inserting 

 "ecological," immediately after "recreational.". 



(2) Section 304(a) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1453(a)) is amended by inserting 

 "islands," immediately after "and includes". 



(3) Section 304(e) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1453(e)) is amended by deleting 

 "and" after "transitional areas," and by inserting "and islands," immediately 

 after "uplands,". 



(4) Section 304 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1453) is further amended by adding at 

 the end thereof the following new subsections : 



"(j) 'Outer Continental Shelf energy activity' means exploration for, or the 

 development or production of, oil and gas resources from the outer Continental 

 Shelf, or the location, construction, expansion or operation of any energy facilities 

 made necessary by such exploration or development. 



" (k ) 'Energy facilities' means new facilities, or additions to existing facilities — 



"(1) which are or will be directly used in the extraction, conversion, storage, 

 transfer, processing, or transporting of any energy resource ; or 



"(2) 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) of this subsection 

 and which will serve, impact, or otherwise affect a substantial geographical area 

 or substantial numbers of people. 



The term includes, but is not limited to (A) electric generating plants; (B) 

 petroleum refineries and associated facilities; (C) gasification plants; liquefied 

 natural gas storage, transfer, or conversion facilities ; and uranium enrichment 

 or nuclear fuel processing facilities; (D) outer Continental Shelf oil and gas 

 exploration, development, and production facilities, including platforms, assembly 

 plants, storage depots, tank farms, crew and supply bases, refining complexes, 

 and any other installation or property that is necessary for such exploration, 

 development, or production ; (E) facilities of offshore loading and marine transfer 

 of petroleum ; (F) pipelines and transmission facilities ; and (G) terminals which 

 are associated witli any of the foregoing. 



"(1) 'Public faciUties and public services' means any services or facilities 

 which are financed, in whole on in part, by state or local government. Such serv- 

 ices and facilities include, but are not limited to, highways, secondary roads, 

 parking, mass transit, water supply, waste collection and treatment, schools and 

 education, hospitals and health care, fire and police protection, recreation and 

 culture, other human services, and facilities related thereto, and such govern- 

 mental services as are necessary to support any increase in population and 

 development. 



"(m) 'local government' means any political subdivision of any coastal State 

 if such subdivision has taxing authority or provides any public .service which is 

 financed in whole or part by taxes, and such term includes, but is not limited to, 

 any school district, fire district, transportation authority, and any other special 

 purpose district or authority. 



"(n) 'Net adverse impacts' means the consequences of a coastal energy activity 

 which are determined by the Secretary to be economically or ecologically costly 

 to a state's coastal zone when weighed against the benefits of a coastal energy 

 activity which directly offset such costly consequences according to the criteria 

 as determined in accordance with section 308(c) of this title. Such impacts may 

 include, but are not limited to — 



