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working either through their respective state agencies or directly 

 with the Department of the Interior. 



The development of the Inventory into a continuing management infor- 

 mation system must be accompanied by an aggressive program of 

 assistance to user groups, both in learning about the information 

 available and in making use of it. This can be accomplished through 

 personal contact, aggressive public service, and demonstrations of 

 how the information can be used to help solve actual problems. 



A management information system such as described here would need to 

 acquire data on some regular basis from many federal and state 

 agencies. Much of the information to be collected on the federal 

 level will come from agencies of the Department of the Interior; so 

 it would be logical that this system should be a Departmental one. 



A management information system is necessary to the timely and 

 efficient implementation of a comprehensive national program of 

 estuarine management and the first steps toward establishment of such 

 a system have been taken as part of the National Estuarine Pollution 

 Study. 



