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(c) Full use of direct Federal authority for func- 

 tional or comprehensive planning to prepare, in 

 cooperation with the States and others, use and 

 management plans for specific estuaries and coastal 

 areas. Completion by the Corps of Engineers of the 

 comprehensive study of Chesapeake Bay, including the 

 construction of the authorized hydraulic model of 

 this estuary, is particularly important. Also urgent 

 is greater attention in the present framework studies 

 being conducted under the aegis of the Water Resources 

 Council and other Federal water resource planning 

 programs in rivers tributary to estuaries and coastal 

 waters to the impact of upstream developments upon 

 downstream estuarine and coastal resources. 



(d) Completion and maintenance by the Department of 

 the Interior of the broad national inventory of 

 estuaries and their resources initiated by the 

 National Estuarine Pollution Study and also the 

 inventory directed by the National Estuarine 

 Protection Act (Public Law 90-454). 



(e) Completion of presently authorized studies bear- 

 ing on the use and management of estuarine resources, 

 including the study by the Department of the Interior 

 under the National Estuarine Protection Act of the 

 feasibility and desirability of establishing a 



