cedures. The use of methods such as sea lanes and be accomplished by amending the Submerged 



fairways should be extended to all congested areas. Lands Act and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 



Authority for regulation and enforcement should ^ ^ Conflicting and often obsolete State fisheries 



be vested m the Coast Guard. ^^^^ aggravate a rational balance of use which is 



10. The Federal jurisdiction on the Continental detrimental to industry, wise conservation, and 



Shelf should include the regulation of all fixed other uses of the coastal zone. A legal framework 



structures both surface and subsurface, including relating to the coastal fisheries should be estab- 



pipelines, wrecks, and lost or abandoned property, lished through the medium of regional fisheries 



This jurisdiction should include considerations of commissions which are sufficiently species ori- 



navigation, safety, resources development, conser- ented, non-discriminatory, and rooted in scientific 



vation, and pollution. These recommendations can knowledge. Uniform State laws should result. 



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