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94th Congress ) HOUSE OF KEPEESENTATIVES j Keport 



M Session ] \ No. 94-878 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS 



OF 1975 



Maboh 4, 1976. — Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

 State of the Union and ordered to be printed 



Mrs. Sullivan, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and 

 Fisheries, submitted the following 



REPORT 



together with 

 ADDITIONAL VIEWS 



[To accompany H.R. 3981] 



The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was 

 referred the bill (H.R. 3981) 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 affects the coastal zone, and for other purposes, hav- 

 ing considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment 

 and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. 



The amendment is as follows : 



Strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the 

 following : 



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 amended (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 3(M(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 subsectiohs : 



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

 development or production of, oil and gas re.sources from the outer Continental 

 Shelf, or the location, construction, expan.sion or oi)eration of any energy facilities 

 made nece.ssary 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, stor- 

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



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