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plan for the use and management of its oortlon of the estuarine 

 resources of Chesaoeake Bay. In essence, the goal here is to 

 apply to the resources of the interstate bay the planning and 

 management approach that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and 

 Development Conmission has applied to, and proposed for, the 

 resources of that intrastate estuary. (See Part V, Chapter 3 

 for a discussion of BCDC.) Also implicit in each State's agree- 

 ment on this point would be a comnitment on its oart to establish 

 a greater degree of State-level supervision and control over 

 zoning and other local regulations over land uses within the 

 basin that affect estuarine values. At present, of course, each 

 State's original authority to exercise these controls itself, 

 has largely been delegated to its local units of government. 

 These units, not surprisingly, have wanted to promote the economic 

 growth of the local area and improve its tax base. However, in 

 the absence of effective review and supervision by a State agency 

 charged with protecting estuarine resources, the result too often 

 has been that local governments succumb to strong local pressures to 

 proceed with poorly planned or limited-purpose development of 

 these resources. 



The third objective is to enact in each State, by means of the 

 compact, statutory provisions requiring that all State or local 

 legislative or other significant action oroposals affecting the 

 estuarine resources of the bay include m) assessment and justifica- 

 tion by the nroposinq entity of the proposal's effect on those 

 resources and their use. 



