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82D CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPOR'F
1st Session ] No. 695
CONFIRMING AND ESTABLISHING THE TITLES OF THE STATES TO
LANDS BENEATH NAVIGABLE WATERS WITHIN STATE BOUNDA-
RIES AND TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES WITHIN SUCH LANDS
AND WATERS AND PROVIDING FOR THE USE AND CONTROL OF
SAID LANDS AND RESOURCES AND FOR THE CONTROL, EXPLORA-
TION, DEVELOPMENT, AND CONSERVATION OF CERTAIN RE-
SOURCES OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF LYING OUTSIDE OF
STATE BOUNDARIES
JULY 12, 1951.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. FELLOWS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 4484]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 4484) to confirm and establish the titles of the States to lands
beneath navigable waters within State boundaries and to the natural
resources within such lands and waters, to provide for the use and
control of the lands and resources, and to provide for the use, control,
exploration, development, and conservation of certain resources of the
Continental Shelf lying outside of State boundaries, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recom-
mend that the bill do pass.
INTRODUCTION
H. R. 4484 is similar to H. R. 8137, Eighty-first Congress, second
session, favorably reported by this committee to the House of Repre-
sentatives on May 17, 1950, and is also similar in many respects to
H. R. 5991 on which hearings were held on August 24, 25, and 29, 1949
by Subcommittee Na. 1 of the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives. Hearings were held on June 6, 1951 on
House Joint Resolution 131 by the same subcommittee that conducted
the hearings on H. R. 5991. During the hearing on House Joint
Resolution 131, the records of all previous hearings on H. R. 5991 and
a companion bill, H. R. 5992, and the records of the joint hearings](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.cbhear/cetsl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)