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The third broad area of responsibility is to simport the objectives 

 of the national policy through public, but nongovernmental , acquisi- 

 tion of estuarine and coastal sites which should be preserved in their 

 natural state and to demonstrate new ways of achieving balanced devel- 

 opment, conservation, and preservation of estuarine and coastal resources 



Responsibilities of Private Interests 



From private interests—ranging from the largest national industrial 

 corporations to the local individual developing real estate in the 

 estuarine and coastal zone—there is an equally important need for 

 action in four broad areas. These are, first, to recognize that the 

 public interest often is identical with the true private interest, 

 particularly if the latter is viewed in the perspective that includes 

 all other private interests and the long run; and further, to recog- 

 nize that where such is not the case, the private interest must be 

 subordinated to the larger public interest. 



A second responsibility, and one private interests share with qovern- 

 mental and other public entities , is to consider in advance the effects 

 of proposed actions in the estuarine and coastal zone on other uses of 

 estuarine and coastal resources and to minimize, wherever possible, the 

 advserse effects upon these other uses. 



Third, as special beneficiaries of the develoDment and use of estuarine 



