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decrease or destroy the possibility of other use of the same 

 resources. The need, in other words, is maximum preservation 

 or conservation of the resource in order to maintain multiple 

 use, and therefore maximum use, both now and in the future. 

 The other need is to resolve the competition among different 

 uses which results from the ever-increasing intensity of 

 utilization, and from the inherent ultimate scarcity of some 

 estuarine resources, through the conferring of priority on that 

 mix of uses which society deems most beneficial, based on both 

 short- and long-range considerations. 



To facilitate the compact agency's performance of this unique 

 function, which today is largely not performed, each signatory's 

 membership in the agency should represent broad citizen interest 

 and values in estuarine resources rather than those of the indi- 

 vidual Federal or State agencies administering resource develop- 

 ment or protection programs. It is the nature of the governmen- 

 tal process in this country that these line agencies as a rule 

 must be especially responsive to special client groups. Sound 

 management, therefore, requires that the special evaluative 

 function here proposed for the compact agency be directed by 

 persons not associated with the more narrow interest or viewpoint 

 usually characteristic of these agencies. 



The second objective is to obtain an agreement between Maryland 

 and Virginia that each will develop and implement a comprehensive 



