CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS: 
STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN NORMAN D. SHUMWAY 
I thought this morning I would like to focus my remarks on 
three topics that are related to San Francisco Bay. One, of 
course, is the coastal zone mechanism which California and the 
Bay Area have developed to conquer problems in the San Francisco 
Bay and ensure the success of that program. Secondly, is how 
these programs begin to relate to activities outside of the 
Bay's legal coastal zone. Thirdly, how the general experience 
of the San Francisco Bay management can be used as an example 
for other estuaries of national significance and more 
specifically, what Congress has done recently. 
Recognizing generally that there is a national interest in 
the effective management, the beneficial use and protection, and 
development of a coastal zone, Congress, in 1972, passed the 
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). The Federal program was set 
up to encourage coastal states to develop their own individual 
coastal management programs which accounted for national 
interest and policies and to have these programs approved by the 
Federal Government. 
As you all may know, there are two basic incentives for a 
coastal state to participate. These are, Federal funds to 
coastal states to help develop and implement management 
programs, and the consistency program which is a Federal 
assurance that Federal activities directly effecting the coastal 
zone will be provided to the maximum extent practicable and 
consistent with approved state management programs. These two 
incentives have been successful in getting 28 of the 35 coastal 
states and territories to obtain Federally-approved management 
programs. As a result of this achievement, the House of 
Representatives, in June of this year, passed HR-2121 to 
authorize Federal programs through the year 1990. 
California has adopted a coastal zone management program and 
incorporated a San Francisco Bay Plan into this program. Also, 
as part of this program, an independent state agency was 
created, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development 
Commission, which we will refer to as BCDC. It is an agency 
which is dedicated to the implementation of the Bay plan. All 
of this, of course, is to achieve comprehensive bay management, 
very fitting for the uniqueness of that resource. 
In my mind, there are three significant advantages which the 
CZMA lends to such an estuary management effort which guarantees 
the success of the Bay plan's comprehensive approach, the 
emphasis on state and regional responsibilities as the principal 
managers, and the consultation ability which CZMA's consistency 
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