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(4) The fourth objective is the adequate funding of all 

 of the essential governmental programs. 



(5) The fifth objective is the development of the public 

 support on which achievement of the other objectives 

 ultimately is dependent. 



A second conclusion is that the sharing of responsibility and 

 authority which marks the present approach to the management of the 

 estuarine and coastal zone also must become an essential feature of 

 the National Estuarine Management Program. In turn, this means that 

 the national program should create a Federal-State-local relation- 

 ship which makes maximum use of the particular and sometimes unique 

 capabilities which each level of government can bring to bear in a 

 coordinated and comprehensive effort to wisely manage the resources 

 of the estuarine and coastal zone. The outlines of such a relation- 

 ship are defined in the sections which follow. 



ROLE OF STATE GOVERNMENTS 

 SUMMARY 



The States today exercise the primary responsibility for the 

 management of the resources of the estuarine and coastal zone. It 

 is the States which are primarily responsible for the prevention 

 and control of pollution in the estuaries and coastal waters. They 

 hold title to the submerged and tidal lands and are thus in a posi- 

 tion to control their use and modification. Although most States 



