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(d) Provision of services such as navigation channels; 

 flood control and protective works, beach restoration, 

 aids to navigation, and environmental prediction, 

 Including weather, tides, etc. 



(e) Promotion of, and guidance and support to, 

 cooperation among the States 1n managing interstate 

 estuaries. 



(f) Recommendations and advice to the States and 

 interstate agencies concerning their estuarine and 

 coastal zones management policies. 



(g) Provision of information and education to the 

 public concerning estuarine and coastal resources, 

 programs, and problems. 



(3) Complete and maintain the broad national Inventory of 

 the estuaries and coastal areas and their resources initi- 

 ated by the National Estuarine Pollution Study and the 

 Inventory directed by the National Estuarine Protection 

 Act (P.L. 90-454). 



(4) Continue broad estuarine and coastal studies not of 

 a local nature. Examples are the National Estuarine 

 Pollution Study by the Department of the Interior; the 

 same agency's study under the National Estuarine Protection 

 Act of the feasibility and desirability of establishing 



a nationwide system of estuarine preserves; the compre- 

 hensive study by the Corps of Engineers of Chesapeake Bay, 



