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and general backing to insure a national management overview of 

 State resources that have a national or regional impact. 



Thus the Federal Government should provide, according to the States, 

 increased coordination of its capabilities to assist the State 

 in essentially any problem area that may arise in regard to manage- 

 ment of their estuarine resources and to assist the States in find- 

 ing the appropriate agency, program, mechanism, or procedure among 

 the widely diversified estuarine-related programs of the numerous 

 Federal agencies. 



This viewpoint of the State (that the Federal Government should 

 provide increased Federal-State coordination, especially in areas 

 that are beyond the scope of the coastal States) relates to the 

 recommendations in the Panel Reports, of the Commission on Marine 

 Science, Engineering and Resources (V-2-6). As recommended in the 

 Panel Report, the Commission recommends that a 



"... National seashore boundary commission, judicial 

 in nature, be established by the Congress with authority 

 to hear and determine seashore boundary questions and 

 controversies involving proprietary interests of the 

 States under Federal grants to them, using present 

 principles of coastal boundary determination. Such a 

 commission should have the following characteristics 

 and authority: 

 "The Congress should give its consent to State suit 



