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responsibility for water nollution problems. Thus, they are actually 

 the primary source for the bulk of water quality and waste discharge 

 information and in many cases it was necessary for the regional 

 offices to work through the States for that information. 



To nrovide information for in-depth case studies, a groun of 

 Estuarine Register Areas for which data were known to be available 

 were chosen and desinnated Selected Estuarine Renister Areas (SEaA) 

 (Table VI. 1,3). With this designation went first priority for data 

 collection. Information on these areas represents the most complete 

 sections of the Inventory. 



