INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 7501

TO AMEND THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS ACT
AND TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR TO
REGULATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF DEEP-
WATER PORT FACILITIES

HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C. JUNE 6 AND 29;
AUGUST 3; AND OCTOBER 1, 1973

23-540

Serial No. 93-22

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Interior and sular Affairs

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1974

SIDNEY L. MCFARLAND, Staff Director and Chief Clerk
LEWIS A. SIGLER, Counsel

CHARLES CONKLIN, Special Counsel on Public Lands and Environmental Matters
CHARLES LEPPERT, Jr., Minority Counsel

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, California JAMES G. MARTIN, North Carolina

STANLEY E. SCOVILLE, Staff Counsel

Dr. JESSICA TUCHMAN, Special Consultant
BRUCE DRIVER, Minority Staff Consultant

NOTE. The chairman of the full committee is an ex officio voting member of this subcommittee. The first listed minority member is counterpart to the subcommittee chairman. (II)

[EDITOR'S NOTE.-At the conclusion of markup sessions that followed these hearings, the Subcommittee on the Environment on November 12, 1973, ordered an amended bill reported to the full committee. At approximately the same time, the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries completed its markup of a somewhat similar bill, H.R. 11951, and since it embodied provisions acceptable to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, no further action was taken with respect to the bill reported by the subcommittee.

[The Committee on Public Works also reported out a deepwater ports bill, H.R. 10701, which passed the House of Representatives on June 6, 1974. However, by floor amendment the text of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries bill, H.R. 11951 was substituted for the original text of the Public Works measure.]

(III)