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estimated by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 

 Wildlife who stress that most of these data are 

 only estimates, not measurements. Their consis- . 

 tency, however, constitutes best-source information 

 and as such they are included in the Inventory. 

 Hand boo k_ Section 3. Managing Fntities 

 Problem: Legal ownershio at the federal level is 

 available information; but state and local ownership, 

 as well as zoning information, is practically unobtain- 

 able at other than the level of the responsible organiza- 

 tions, generally municipality or county. Some soecial 

 study information on specific areas constitutes most of 

 the available data. 



Solution: Based on material gathered through the Deoartment 

 of Housing and Urban Develooment and the Bureau of the 

 Budget, as well as several oublic and orivate renorts and 

 documents, it was possible to identify almost 200 federal, 

 interstate, state-federal, county, and sub or multi-county 

 planning groups who receive federal monies and may have 

 concern in_. the estuarine zone. This must be regarded only 

 as a steo in the right direction. 



Handbook Section 5. Stage of Development 



Problem- Some pertinent statistics on pcnnnmic develon- 

 ment were found to be available at no lower ^ev^^ t^an ^v 

 State. number of statistics, shov/n as available in the 

 Departments of Agriculture and Cnmmerce cpnsus catalogs. 



