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— Develop and make accessible the many forms of outdoor 

 recreation and the aesthetic values offered by the estuaries 

 and coastal areas. 



--Reduce to an acceptable minimum the adverse effect of man's 

 use of the estuaries and coastal areas and accept preservation 

 as one means of reasonably guarantying the opportunity to 

 exercise future options. 



The recommended (National Policy will put in effect a comprehensive 

 national program for the effective management, beneficial use, 

 protection and development of the estuarine and coastal zone of 

 the Nation involving Federal, State, and local governments, and 

 public and private interests in an appropriate manner. It will 

 permit the optimum use of this vital resource by recognizing the 

 existence of competing uses and accommodating them through 

 appropriate management and, further, conserve these resources 

 in such a manner as to keep open the options for various uses 

 in the future and not foreclose them. This management system 

 will recognize the primary and constitutional role of the States 

 in managing their resources as well as the role of the Federal 

 Government in protecting the wider national interest. The 

 principal goal of the national program is the use of the estuarine 

 and coastal zone for as many beneficial purposes as possible and, 

 where some uses are precluded, to achieve that mix of uses which 

 society, based on both short and long-range considerations, deems 

 most beneficial . 



