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responsibilities in sanitary shellfish control. The Department of 

 Natural Resources cooperates with the Department of Air and Water 

 Pollution Control on pollution control programs. The Department 

 of Natural Resources' Marine Resources Division reports its 

 findings on the results of ecological and environmental studies of 

 proposed projects pertaining to the sale, modification, and develop- 

 ment of submerged lands to the Internal Improvement Fund. Then, 

 in the 1969 session, the State Legislature passed a bill whereby 

 the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Air 

 and Water Pollution Control are to be represented on the Department 

 of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Pesticide Technical Advisory 

 Committee. 



In brief, Florida being a relatively highly urban, low rural, 

 highly developed State seems to have the organizational and legisla- 

 tive basis for the relatively effective management of its estuaries. 

 The current problems in estuarine resource utilization in the State 

 seem not to lie in the area of adequate coordination but in the 

 area of lack of funds and trained field and laboratory personnel to 

 carry out effective pollution surveillance programs and to conduct 

 necessary studies to determine effects of various water uses and assess 

 damages when necessary. A potentially serious problem in estuarine 

 management lies in the private ownership of thousands of acres of 

 submerged land including most of the intertidal marshland in the less 

 urbanized areas of northern Florida. 



