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short- and long-term growth in the future. Significantly, these 

 areas also reflect a change in life style toward a suburban, leisure- 

 centered existence with its attendant demands for land- and water- 

 related activities. 



Actual trends and projections of numbers of persons by OBE estuarine 

 economic area are given 1n Table IV. 4. 2 Table IV. 4. 3 demonstrates 

 population pressure on the available coastline and associated 

 estuaries. That pressure can be summarized as follows: 



(1) The New York-Northeast New Jersey Coast Area, OBE 

 area 4 with a population density of nearly 4,000 persons 

 per square mile in 1970 (more than twice as high as the 

 next most densely populated area projected for 2000), 

 will continue to be the most populous area in the 

 United States and exert the most concentrated pressure on 

 remaining coastal open space and water quality from 

 municipal and other wastes; 



(2) The |outhern North Atlantic and Middle Atlantic 

 Biophysical region, OBE areas 2 through 6, will continue 

 to experience the greatest concentration of population 

 and economic activity; 



(3) The distribution of major population densities will 

 change from a heavy preponderance located in the North 

 Atlantic and Middle Atlantic region, to a more even 

 distribution including Florida, Texas, and California 1n 



