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JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OE THE 

 COMMITTEE OE CONFERENCE 



The managers on the part of the ITonsc and tlie Senate at the con- 

 ference on the disagreeing votes of the two Ilonses on the amendments 

 of the House to the bill (S. 586), to amend the Coastal Zone Manage- 

 ment Act of 1972 to authorize and assist the coastal states to study, 

 plan for, manage, and control the impact of energy facility and re- 

 source de\'elopment which affects the coastal zone, and for other pur- 

 poses, submit the following joint statement to the House and the Senate 

 in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers 

 and recommended in the accompanying conference report : 



The House amendments struck out all of the Senate bill after the 

 enacting clause and iiiserted a substitute text and provided a new title 

 for the Senate bill, and tlie Senate disagreed to the Plouse amendments. 



The committee of conference recounnends that the Senate recede 

 from its disagreement to the amendment of the House to the text of the 

 Senate bill, with an amendment which is a substitute for both the text 

 of the Senate bill and the House amendment to the text of the Senate 

 bill. The committee of conference also recommends that the House 

 recede from its amendment to the title of the Senate bill, with an 

 amendment which is a substitute for both the title of the Senate bill 

 and the House amendment to the title of the Senate bill. 



The provisions of the amendment recommended by the committee 

 of conference are set foi'th below in a maimer sufficiently detailed and 

 explicit to inform the House and the Senate as to the effect which the 

 amendment contained in the accompanying conference report will have 

 upon the measure to which it relates. 



Summary and Description 



The purpose of the conference substitute is to improve and 

 strengthen coastal zone management in the Ignited States and to coor- 

 dinate and f iirtlier the objectives of national energy policy by directing 

 the Secretary of Commerce to administer and coordinate, as part of the 

 Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (IG U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) (here- 

 inafter referred to as "the 1972 Act"), a coastal energy impact 

 program. 



The 1972 Act was enacted before the advent of the current and con- 

 tinuing energy crisis; i.e., before attainment of a greater degree of 

 energv self-sufficiency became a recognized national objective of the 

 highest impoiiance and priority. The conference substitute follows 

 both the Senate bill and the House amendment in amending the 1972 

 Art to encourage new or expanded oil and natural gas production in an 

 oi'derly manner from the Nation's outer Continental Shelf (OCS) by 

 ))roviding for financial assistance to meet state and local needs result- 

 ing from specified new or expanded energy activity in or affecting 

 the coastal zone. 



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