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and needless duplication, because estuarine activities cut 

 across all facets of a coastal State government. However to 

 be effective these individual responsibilities and activities 

 must be effectively and efficiently coordinated through a consci- 

 entious sptHtof cooperation. More often than not, these activities 

 are not sufficiently coordinated. . 



THE PLAN 



The State organizational entity, when effective, is backed up by 

 and empowered to develop, approve, and/or implement a comprehensive 

 Statewide estuarine management plan or concept . In respect to these 

 management plans, the States generally do not have approved compre- 

 hensive Statewide management plans to guide or provide a basis for 

 the activities of the organizational framework. When existent they 

 are often \jery flexible, nebulous, incomplete, confusing, and rely 

 more on the individual experts to solve problems, as they arise, 

 than on preplanning. 



THE REGULATIONS 



The comprehensive management plan and the corresponding organiza- 

 tional entity, when existent, are empowered or strengthened, directly 

 or indirectly through coordination mechanisms, by regulations, pro- 

 visions, statutes, and orocedures for use control either through 

 zoning, acquisition, restrictive covenants, or State ownership 

 of submerged lands. This lack of organizational frameworks. 



