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which deal with the estuarine zone, including associated land 

 areas (coastal counties, coastal SMSA's or parts thereof) should 

 be required to forward copies of raw data gathered and reports 

 completed to a central facility for processing and cataloguing. 



The reporting system should require no special form or method 

 ob submission, but simply copies of material gathered. (At the 

 field level where the actual work takes place, special require- 

 ments of data and information submission would require too many 

 man-hours to be feasible). 



This reporting system will serve tv/o purposes. First, it will 

 serve as an update mechanism for knowledge being gained in the 

 estuarine zone. Second, it will provide an accurate mechanism 

 to help prevent duplication of effort among federally financed 

 programs. 



4. All entities wholly or partially financed by the Federal 

 Government, which monitor estuarine water quality parameters, 

 including sediments and sedimentation, should be identified, their 

 sampling station locations pin-pointed, and copies of the data 

 taken submitted to a central location for processing. 



Unified identification of existing stations and analysis of the 

 data collected would point out current coverage and permit any 

 expansion necessary to proceed logically and without duplication. 



Much of the work of identification of the sampling points used 

 by Federal agencies has already been accomplished by the U. S. 



