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conducted 30 public meetings across the Nation to provide a forum 

 of contacting and receiving the views from the public and private 

 sectors and also from individuals not already contacted and wish- 

 ing to present their views on the current situation in the estuarine 

 zone. The actual proceedings of these meetings were recorded and 

 most of the transcripts have already been assembled into individual 

 volumes for use in preparing this report and also for future 

 reference. The assembly has been handled by the Study's regional 

 representatives. Since the transcripts represent the actual state- 

 ments by the attendees, selective distribution has been made to those 

 people involved or interested in the conduct of the Study. A limit- 

 ed number of additional copies are being retained for future reference. 

 Volumewise the transcripts amount to several thousand pages of copy. 

 These transcripts are referred to as Transcripts of the Estuarine 

 Study Public Meetings in the place where they were held. A list of 

 the meeting sites, dates of occurrence, and analysis of them are 

 included in Chapter 5 of Part V. A few of the transcripts has 

 been sunmarized in the form of brief brochures covering the high- 

 lights of the particular meetings. A limited number of these 

 brochures are retained for reference. 



AGENCY PROFILES 



Information on the estuarine-related programs and responsibilities 

 received from the Federal agencies participating in the Study, and 

 from the coastal State governments have been summarized in the form 



