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against the United States, permitting States to initiate 

 boundary cases before the commission, 

 "Jurisdiction of the Commission should be limited to 

 boundary questions between the States and the United 

 States, involving proprietary interests of the States 

 under Federal grants to them. 



"Lines determined by the commission or by the Supreme 

 Court of the United States after an appeal would be 

 fixed oermanently. Such stablilization should apply 

 only to ownership of submerged lands or resources, not to 

 general political jurisdiction and authority. Authority 

 to regulate mineral lease operations should be stabilized 

 at the property line so determined and fixed." 



The general consensus of States' views regarding the role of local- 

 level governments is that in most cases there are not, at present, 

 sufficient local organizations to handle estuarine management 

 responsibilities and that the people at the local level, i.e., 

 county, cannot support such an organization. However, whenever 

 possible the local-level organization should be promoted and built 

 up so that it can adequately handle the local government aspects of 

 the State's overall comprehensive management plan for the estuaries. 

 Local governments are often too susceptible to economic pressures 

 and political influences in respect to estuarine development to 

 enable them to manage the estuarine areas not only for the good 



