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at critical stages in the development process. 

 This plan should be appropriately coordinated with 

 Federal agencies, State agencies, local governments 

 and other interests; and with plans for managing 

 the land and water resources in the estuary's 

 tributary streams, metropolitan area plans, economic 

 development plans, etc. 



(b) Instituting State-level permit requirements 

 for dredging, filling, or other modification of 

 wetlands and other estuarine and coastal resources 

 in areas not subject to exclusive Federal 

 regulation. 



(c) Requiring all State and local agencies engaged 

 in activities which may physically or otherwise 

 modify estuarine or coastal resources, either 

 directly or through issuance of permits, licenses, 

 leases, etc., to comply with the approved use and 

 management Dlan for the estuary in question. In 

 the absence of such plan, the agency should be 

 required to: 



[1] Give notice of the intended action ami 

 hoi d a public hearing before actinq, if 

 another governmental agency gives notice 

 that a substantial adverse effect on estuar- 

 ine or coastal resources or their use is a 



