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various interdependent uses of the bay's estuarine 

 resources, and suggesting alternatives that should 

 be considered; and (d) periodically evaluate exis- 

 ting management programs and the condition of the 

 bay's estuarine resources, economic and other trends 

 affecting those resources, and report its conclusions 

 and recommendations to the two States and the Federal 

 Government. 



Three major objectives underline the proposed use of the compact 

 instrument along the preceding lines. 



The first is to create a governmental institution whose predo- 

 minant concern and mission would be to define and clarify issues 

 and the consequences of alternative policies for the use and 

 management of the estuarine resources of Chesapeake Bay. Deci- 

 sions on those issues and execution of those decisions would 

 remain with the politically responsible legislative and adminis- 

 trative institutions of the two States and the Federal Government, 



The aim would be to dramatize more effectively, to the political 

 process which must choose among alternative ways of utilizing 

 and managing the resources of the bay, the two central needs that 

 are the core of sound resource management. These are, first, to 

 eliminate or reduce the adverse spillovers from certain uses that 



