MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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offshore areas for exploration and development of such
offshore energy source deposits; and

WHEREAS, Those activities will have substantial
environmental effects and economic and social impacts
upon Maryland and other coastal states, and will impose
upon those states significant additional costs to provide
related onshore facilities, neutralize adverse
environmental effects and ameliorate economic and social
imbalances or distress; and

WHEREAS, There is currently pending in the Congress
of the United States legislation which, by utilizing
Federal revenues from such leases of offshore areas,
would compensate the several states affected for the
costs imposed upon those states as a result of their
proximity to areas in which such exploration and
development are carried on; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
the Congress of the United States is hereby urged to
enact appropriate legislation to provide adequate
compensation out of Federal offshore exploration and
development lease revenues to those states which will be
required to incur additional costs for the purpose of
dealing with the environmental, social and economic
consequences of active exploration for and development of
energy source deposits in undersea areas adjacent to
their shores; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution shall be
sent to the President Pro tempore of the United States
Senate and the Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives, to the Chairman of the Committees on
Interior and Insular Affairs in either House of Congress,
and to each of the members of the Congress elected from
this State, to wit: Senators Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.,
and J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510; Members of the House of
Representatives Robert E. Bauman, Clarence D. Long, Paul
S. Sarbanes, Marjorie S. Holt, Gladys N. Spellman,
Goodloe E. Byron, Parren J. Mitchell and Gilbert Gude,
House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.

Approved April 8, 1975.

No. 18
(Senate Joint Resolution 6)