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Chapter 9 

 SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR A STATE MANAGEMENT STATUTE 



Numerous representatives of the Coastal States have expressed, 

 through the public meetings, through State profile presentations, 

 and through direct correspondence with the National Estuarine 

 Pollution Study staff a need for suggestions from the Federal 

 Government as to how the States can develop improved or strength- 

 ened provisions for the use control of their estuarine resources. 

 Details on these suggestions are included in the preceding Chapters 

 2 and 5. 



Consequently, the National Estuarine Pollution Study made an initial 

 attempt to develop such guidelines through a contract awarded to the 

 University of Maryland School of Law. The result of this contract 

 was the development of a Model Statute for Chesapeake Bay Basin 

 Management based upon the existing condition in the adjacent 

 Chesapeake Bay. This specific geographic area was selected as the 

 basis for the development of the guidelines because of its wide 

 range of governmental relationships, characteristics, benefits, 

 potentials, and use conflicts which exist not only in the Basin 

 area but also in other major estuarine areas. Therefore, this 

 suggested Statute, presented in the following pages of this chapter, 

 is considered to meet many of these problems and to include many 

 of the basic principles which would be apolicable to other estuarine 

 areas of the United States; also it is included because it is an 



