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A very good example of this is mapping and charting activities and 

 aids to navigation. When the Corps of Engineers establishes a new 

 navigation channel or changes one, the Coast Guard is informed 

 and makes the necessary changes of navigation aids. The Environ- 

 mental Sciences Services Administration under the Department of 

 Commerce is aware and takes the necessary steps to have these 

 changes placed on the proper navigational charts. Information 

 regarding the changes is published in the form of Notices to 

 Mariners and put out by the U. S. Naval Oceanoqraphic Office under 

 the Department of the Navy. This is all reasonably automatic 

 coordination, there is much of it and it is very effective. 



A most important form of coordination and one which encompasses 

 all our charted organizations is that carried out under the guid- 

 ance of the Water Resources Council. As noted in the table des- 

 cribing Federal activities in the six estuaries, membership or 

 associate membership on the Water Resources Council and partici- 

 pation in the planning studies conducted by the river basin commis- 

 sions or the interagency committees provide a significant means 

 of coordination. 



To highlight its interest in the estuaries and estuarine zones 

 the Water Resources Council adopted on November 29, 1967, the 

 following resolution: 



