Appropriations shown below have been ex- 

 tracted from other program categories to reflect 

 the level of ESSA activities in the coastal zone. 



FY 68 FY 69 



(milhons of dollars) 



Surveys and observations, 



processing analysis 



compilation, and printing 9.6 

 Research and development 0.5 

 Facilities, equipment, and 



construction 0.7 



Total 10.8 



9.6 

 0.5 



0.5 

 10.6 



Future plans envisioned by ESSA include: 



-An accelerated and comprehensive program to 

 determine the circulatory characteristics of near- 

 shore waters necessary to the proper development 

 of coastal zone resources. This program, estimated 

 at about $4 million, will include detailed surveys 

 of the circulation patterns of the various gulfs, 

 bights, sounds, bays, estuaries, and inner shelf. 



—Seaward boundary determination including a 

 comprehensive low water line mapping program. 

 This is estimated at about $5.5 miUion and would 

 serve to resolve jurisdictional and other legal gaps 

 resulting from an incomplete knowledge of our 

 exact shoreline boundaries. 



XII. MARITIME ADMINISTRATION (MARAD) 



The Maritime Administration of the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce has certain well defined 

 legislative and promotional responsibilities for 

 administration of Merchant Marine, Sales and 

 Shipping Acts, 1936, 1946, 1920, 1916 and 1928, 

 as amended, together with certain related Acts. 

 The provisions of these Acts enable the agency to 

 further develop and maintain an adequate and 

 weU-balanced American Merchant Marine, to pro- 

 mote U.S. commerce, and to aid in the National 

 defense. It is consulted in matters concerning the 

 enhancement in quaUty and value of the Nation's 

 waterways, and for prevention and abating pollu- 

 tion attributable to ships. The agency's budgets are 

 structured in terms of office functions such as 

 Ship Construction, Research and Development, 

 Maritime Promotion and Operations. 



Financial aid is available to the marine industry 

 in the form of construction differential subsidy for 

 new ship construction; operating differential sub- 

 sidy for operating ships. Title XI mortgage insur- 

 ance, and in the provisions of ship exchange 

 legislation. 



MARAD has initiated provision for sewage 

 treatment facilities in its new construction pro- 

 gram and has sponsored research concerned with 

 the prevention of oil pollution. As reported," its 

 current program consist of: 



-Nineteen aerobic-type treatment units currently 

 being installed in vessels under construction 



—Provision for common soil line connections and 

 space for sewage treatment plants on 22 vessels 

 under recent construction and for all new con- 

 struction 



—A research contract to develop a marine oil-water 

 separator system employing the principal of static 

 coalescence 



—A research contract to develop a rapid and 

 automatic means of monitoring oil concentration 

 in water 



—A research contract for a compact, low-cost 

 oil-water separation system, using standard pro- 

 prietary equipment, to meet current international 

 oil discharge requirements of 100 parts per million 



—Requiring, where feasible, installation of clean 

 water ballast tanks in its new ship construction 

 program. 



Maritime Administration funding which may be 

 attributed to the coastal zone is chiefly the Ports 

 and Systems Program. Funding is as follows: 



FY 68 

 FY 69 



$ 475,000 

 $1,700,000 



Future plans of the Maritime Administration 

 envision the following concepts: 



-Development of a port "control tower" would 

 (1) reduce the retardant effects of multiple, 

 uncoordinated Federal agency activities, (2) facili- 



'' Information furnished at Panel hearings, Oct. 11, 

 1967. 



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