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SECTION 2. PLANNING AND CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC MEETINGS 



In order to bring the planning of the public meetings as close as 

 possible to potential witnesses, this responsibility was delegated 

 to the six Regional Offices of the Federal Water Pollution Control 

 Administration involved with the coastal States. 



To reach as many people as possible, and to allow for the broadest 

 possible representation, invitations were sent to organizations, 

 business and industrial concerns and groups, and State and local 

 government bodies; and announcements were made in the local press 

 and on local radio stations, in an effort to encourage individual 

 citizens to attend and speak. 



Each meeting was presided over jointly by the Regional Director and 

 by the Governor's Representative to the National Estuarine Pollution 

 Study. 



Because of the high degree of interest shown by the people in attend- 

 ance, transcripts of the meetings, including written submissions, 

 were prepared and sent to the participants and other interested 

 persons. 



Between January of 1968 and February of 1969, thirty meetings were 

 held. A map showing the meeting locations appears in Appendix B, 

 and the schedule of these meetings appears in Appendix C. 



