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plan , variously termed, and an effective mechanism for enforcing 

 it. Principally, such a plan should provide for State control of 

 estuarine uses; that the States should control estuarine uses was 

 definitely a prevailing viev/. A management organization to imple- 

 ment the plan should be placed high enough in the State level 

 governmental structure so that its recommendations and actions to 

 control estuarine uses can be effectively heard and heeded. However, 

 the mechanism or organization may consist principally of a coordi- 

 nation technique, because a separate estuarine organizational 

 entity would cut across numerous existing organizational respon- 

 siblities and probably needlessly duplicate existing delegated 

 tasks. 



Numerous States recommended that effective State management and 

 State use control could be achieved by strengthening and enforcing 

 existing use regulations and controls, such as strengthening dredg- 

 ing and spoil controls, and enforcing v/ater quality standards 

 applicable to tidal waters. The essential point was that the States 

 should control/requlate estuarine uses or multiple uses. 



Other States took the opposite, though related, view that the State 

 needed to develop new regulations , controls, and provisions, such 

 as the development of zoning plans on a Statewide basis, to govern 

 estuarine areas. However, in general this view is essentially the 

 same as the preceding one because States that do not have adequate 

 estuarine RBnagement provisions should develop them and those States 



