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<br />The Office of Regional Planning in the Interior Department, which has been <br />tooling up with cooperation from state and Federal officials in anticipation of <br />a Federal land use program, reports that many states consider the Jackson bill <br />too conservative in requirements as well as financing. <br /> <br />Planning for the preservation and development of public property covering <br />one-third of the nation's land has simultaneously reached the takeoff point in <br />Congress. <br /> <br />House Interior Committee Chairman Wayne L. Aspinall (D-Colo.), who chaired <br />a six-year study commission on public land law, produced last year a package to <br />reshape Federal land management and create a land use policy similar to Jackson's <br />for private lands, but no floor action was taken. <br /> <br />However, Aspinall's primary election defeat -- on environmental issues -- <br />and the defeat or retirement of 12 other House Interior members including three <br />subcommittee chairmen forestall predictions on public lands legislation in the <br />House. <br /> <br />Aspinall's ironhanded control gave way to Florida Democrat James A. Haley, <br />who is likely to show more sympathy to environmentalists. New committee <br />members will be announced shortly. <br /> <br />The Coastal Zone Management Act <br />grants to,stqtes for state-regulated <br />oceanic, gulf 'and Great Lake states. <br /> <br />of 1972 -- enacted late last year -- offers <br />local controls along the coasts of the 30 <br />Initial Federal guidelines are in preparation. <br /> <br />(The Special Report beginning on p. 7 outlines the provisions of last year's <br />Congressional proposals for land use policy, public land management, surface <br />mine regulation and power plant siting.) <br /> <br />Other bills relating to land use planning are already on the docket. <br /> <br />-- State planning and site regulation of power plants would be required by <br />Rep. John Dingell's (D-Mich.) H.R. 180 and by a revised version of last year's <br />S. 1684, which Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) will introduce soon (see <br />Special Report, p. 9). The issue will be included in Senate Commerce Committee <br />hearings on energy policy scheduled for Feb. 7-8 and 21-22. <br /> <br />-- Senate Commerce hearings will also consider the creation of a three- <br />member Council on Energy Policy under Sen. Ernest Holling's (D-S.C.) S. 70. <br /> <br />-- Bills that would give authority over construction of offshore port and <br />power facilities to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (S. 80 <br />by Sen. Hollings) and to states (S. 180 by Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J.), <br />have been referred to the Senate Commerce and Public Works Committees respectively. <br /> <br />-- Sens. John Tunney and Alan Cranston, both California Democrats, have <br />introduced a series of bills (S. 164-172) that would establish marine sanctuaries <br />and prohibit mineral exploitation in eight areas of the Outer Continental Shelf <br />off California. <br /> <br />-- Surface mine regulation and reclamation bills have been introduced by <br />Sen. Jackson (see Special Report, p. 10) and by five groups of representatives <br />(H.R. 3, 181, 726, 1000 and 1411). Interior Committees have jurisdiction. <br /> <br />2 <br />