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member of EPA's staff who works with this program stated, "Section 404 is both 

 bigger and smaller than a comprehensive wetlands program." 144 / Alternative 

 approaches oriented to land use controls might have found some favorable 

 response in Congress five to ten years ago, when coastal zone and national land 

 use legislation proposals were being debated; but in the recent past, any leg- 

 islation that can be even tangentially tied to Federal land use planning has 

 died a quick death or been subject to such extended scrutiny and criticism that 

 final affirmative action has not been taken. 



One result of disagrement as to the most appropriate approach at the Fed- 

 eral level has been growing efforts by States, and to a lesser degree, local 

 government, to create their own programs. These programs differ from the Fed- 

 eral effort in many ways, and vary greatly from State to State. The next 

 chapter briefly reviews these programs. 



144/ Phone conversaion with David Davis, Office of Federal Activities, 

 Environmental Protection Agency, August 1981. 



