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Thus, the States believe they should manage and control the use, 

 mainly through ownership or restrictive covenants, of estuarine 

 areas. This should be done through a newer and stronger State role 

 involving an efficiently coordinated State-level management organi- 

 zation, to implement a Statewide comprehensive management plan that 

 is supportable or backed up by sufficiently strong regulations and 

 needed research studies designed to solve problems pertinent to the 

 particular needs of the management organization and the correspond- 

 ing estuarine resources. 



Summing up these viewpoints reveals two essential points: 



(1) Estuarine protective legislation cannot be effective 

 without the corresponding organizational structure and 

 function. 



(2) An organizational structure must have the necessary 

 legislative authorities, staffing, and budget to give 



it the proper and sufficient capabilities to do the job 

 of effectively managing the estuaries. It is useless, 

 of course, to have an inefficient and ineffective organi- 

 zational unit that is buried so deeply in the State 

 organizational hierarchy that it is unable to do, in 

 essence, anything. 



Thus, the essential aspects of the new and improved State's role 

 are effective legislative policy enabling protection, with a corres- 

 ponding efficient organization capable of actually managing the 



