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94th Congress ) HOUSE OF KEriiKSENTATlNES j Report 



2d Session ) \ No. 94-1298 



COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS 



OF 1976 



.TrxK 24, 1!)76. — Ordered to l»e printed 



Mrs. Sullivan, from tlie committee of conference, 

 submitted the following 



CONFERENCE REPORT 



ITo iKTouipiUiy S. r»S6] 



The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two 

 Houses on the amendments of the House to 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 facility and resource development which affects the coastal 

 zone, and for other purposes, have agreed to recommend and do recom- 

 mend to their respective Houses as follows : 



That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of 

 the House to the text of tlie bill and agree to the same with an amend- 

 ment as follows : 



In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House amend- 

 ment insert the following : 



That this Act may he cited as the ^'■Coastal Zone Management Act 

 Amendments of 1976'\ 



SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 



Section 302 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 {16 U.S.C. 

 14s 1) is a'lnended — 



(/) hy inserting '•'• ecological.''' immediately after '-'■recreational^'^ 

 in subsection (6) ; 



{2) hy striking out — 



(A) the semicolon at the end of suhsections (a), (h). (c). 

 (d), (e). and (/), respectively, and 



(B) "/ and " at the end of suhsection (g). 



and inserting in l/eu of such matter at each such place a period: 

 and 



(3) hy inserting immediately after suhsection (h) the follow- 

 ing : 

 "(?') The natioval ohjective of attaining a greater degree of energy 

 self-sufficiency ^inouhl he advanced hy prodding Federal financial 

 assistance to nieet state and local needs resulting from nein or ex- 

 panded energy activity iti or affecting the coastal zone.^\ 



(1) 



