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component; (c) recreational use comnonent; and (d) water- 

 v/ay, utilities, and industrial use component. 



(2) To establish policies and procedures whereby each 

 State assures that its local political subdivisions will 

 implement and comply with the plan after its adoption. 



(3) To require its agencies and local subdivisions, 

 when developing legislative or other significant action 

 proposals affecting the bay resources, to (a) study 

 and consider all impacts, including the long-range 

 effects, of the proposed action on the estuarine resour- 

 ces of the bay; and (b) explicitly state considerations 

 of National, State, or local policy which justify any 

 adverse effects that cannot be avoided by following 

 reasonable alternatives. 



(4) To establish and maintain a joint agency in coopera- 

 tion with the Federal Hovernment that shall: (a) coordi- 

 nate State and Federal research and studies in the bay 

 and conduct its own work along these lines; (b) conduct 

 an education program concerning issues in the use and 

 management of the bay's resources; (c) evaluate proposed 

 plans and projects, both public and private, for the 



use and management of the bay and its estuarine resour- 

 ces by identifying the proposal's advantages and disad- 

 vantages, weighing tradeoffs between disparate benefits 

 involved in the proposal, pointing out effects on the 



