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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







No. 7
STATES' CONTROL OF COAST INVALIDATED


            
The Supreme Court announced a decision applicable to our entire national coasts, including Alaska, which, if left to stand, could wreck the principal program for managing the nation's coastal areas.  The court ruled that California has no power, under provisions of the Coastal Zone Management Act, to require consistency of federal off-shore leases with the state's own program for protecting its coastal zone.  The state's participation in federal off-shore leasing would be eliminated.  Our chief protective agency, the Coastal Commission, would be powerless to act.

Compliance with the order would subject valuable economic and recreational shorelines and one of the world's richest marine biological habitats -- the Santa Barbara and Channel Islands area -- to the detrimental impact of off-shore oil and gas activities.

The most direct and the quickest remedy is to amend the Coastal Management Act.  To that end legislation has been introduced, bills H.R. 4589 and S. 2324, that stipulate that federally supported activities, outside as well as within the coastal zone, must be consistent with state policies.  Interior Secretary Clark has said he would urge the President to veto such legislation.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs therefore resolves that it supports legislation H.R. 4589 and S. 2324 to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act to require federally supported activities to be consistent with state policies.







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