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Study has made much progress, there remains much more to be done if 

 comprehensive management plans are to receive the support they need. 



San Francisco Bay suffered rather severe degradation before the 

 "Save the Bay" organizations by their efforts brought the Bay 

 Conservation and Development Commission into being. As a result, 

 there is now a comprehensive plan for the preservation, use, and 

 development of the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay, on the other hand, is 

 at present little damaged except in local areas generally near the 

 population centers. Nevertheless, it faces growing problems of 

 population pressures and industrial development with the problems 

 involved in being an interstate estuary. This means, of course, 

 that preparing and carrying out a comprehensive plan of management 

 must sooner or later be a coordinated effort on the parts of both 

 the States of Maryland and Virginia. 



As can be seen, these two case studies, as brief as they are, again 

 bring out the need for and the importance of a comprehensive plan 

 at the State level, a national policy and objectives, augmentation 

 of programs directed to the estuarine and coastal zone, and the 

 establishment and implementation of better and stronger regulatory 

 controls. 



These conclusions reinforce the discussion and findings in the study 

 of the roles of local. State, interstate, and Federal programs in 

 developing a comprehensive national estuarine program. 



