974 



88 



Changes in Existing Law 



In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 

 of Representatives, as amended, changes in existing law made by the 

 bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be 

 omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, 

 existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman) : 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1972, AS 

 AMENDED 



(16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq. ; Public Law 92-583) 



AN ACT To estaiblish a national policy and develop a national program for the 

 management, beneficial use, protection, and development of the land and water 

 resources of the Nation's coastal zones, and for other purposes. 



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

 United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That the Act entitled 

 "An Act to provide for a comprehensive, lonar-range, and coordinated 

 national program in marine science, to establish a National Council on 

 Marine Resources and Engineering Development, and a Commission 

 on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, and for other pur- 

 poses", approved June 17, 1966 (80 Stat. 203), as amended (33 U.S.C. 

 1101-1124), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the fol- 

 lowing new title : 



TITLE III— MANAGEMENT OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



SHORT TITLE 



Sec. 301. This title may be cited as the "Coastal Zone Management 

 Act of 1972". 



CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS 



Sec. 302. The Congress finds that— 



(a) There is a national interest in the effective management, bene- 

 ficial use, protection, and development of the coastal zone; 



(b) The coastal zone is rich in a variety of natural, commercial, t-pc- 

 reational, ecological, industrial, and esthetic resources of immediate 

 and potential value to the present and future well-being of the Nation : 



(c) The increasing and competinff demands upon the lands and 

 waters of our coastal zone occasioned by population growth and eco- 

 nomic development, including requirements for industry, commerce, 

 residential development, recreation, extraction of mineral resources 

 and fossil fuels, transportation and navigation, waste disposal, and 

 harvesting of fish, shellfish, and other living marine resources, have 

 resulted in the loss of living marine resources, wildlife, nutrient-rich 

 areas, permanent and adverse changes to ecological systems, decreasing 

 open space for public use, and shoreline erosion ; 



(d) The coastal zone, and the fish, shellfish, other living marine re- 

 source, and wildlife therein, are ecologically fragile and consequently 

 extremely vulnerable to destruction by man's alterations; 



(e) Important ecological, cultural, historic, and esthetic values in 

 the coastal zone which are essential to the well-being of all citizens are 

 being irretrievably damaged or lost ; 



