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 responsibility and authority. These include (1) the recommendation 

 that failure by a State to prepare and adhere to a comprehensive 

 management plan should be the basis for a withdrawal by the Secretary 

 of the Interior of additional grant support; (2) the recommended 

 bonus attaching to the administrative grant if the State institutes 

 an effective moratorium on further dredging and filling during the pre- 

 paration of its comprehensive management plan; and (3) the comparable 

 bonus that it recommends if that plan is acceptable to the Secretary. 



The Estuary Study also concurs with the Commission Report in proposina 

 the establishment by the Congress of a special commission to fix bound- 

 aries in the estuarine and coastal zone. 



However, the Estuary Study is in fundamental disagreement with the 

 Coimiission Report on the question of centralizing Federal activities 

 in a single Federal agency. It proposes instead that coordination 

 and integration of Federal programs and activities be the responsi- 

 bility and a capability of the State organization administrating or 

 coordinating the States' estuarine and coastal zone management acti- 

 vities. The administration of the new Federal grants for estuarine 

 and coastal zone management specifically would be assigned, under the 

 Estuary Study recommendations, to the Secretary of the Interior. 

 Existing authority of other Federal agencies basically would remain 

 unaltered. 



Other important differences betv;een the Estuary Study and the 

 Conriission Report concern the new Federal grant programs. This study 

 recommends an initial, one-time grant of 100 percent to each State 



