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are doing in your individual scope, I tliink we have to recognize that 

 that is a small portion, and it is only a piecemeal approach, and that 

 we have not as yet, truthfully, started to put together all of these 

 pieces. 



It is my feeling that we now have the opportunity and we now have 

 the base, without doing any further studies — and as was pointed out 

 here before, we have to and should move now. 



I don't know what more of a comprehensive study we would want 

 than the study which was put forth by the Commission to use as a 

 foundation. 



I don't think we have to waste too much time talking about the old 

 alternatives that are always put forth, the old, weak coordinating body, 

 the new agency that everybody screams about. I think we are ready to 

 move, and I do not think we can move if we keep ourselves in just the 

 cubicles of the State boundaries. 



I submit that in most instances the State programs have been piece- 

 meal and have not taken the total picture. I want to give you a little 

 example. I am going to use my home State of New Jersey because I 

 know they will forgive me, because they have been forgiving me for 

 years over there. They know truthfully that I love it. 



I am going to give you some facts. I think you can relate this pretty 

 much to your own individual States. So forgive me, New Jersey, I am 

 not particularly talking about you. 



New Jersey has approximately 360,000 acres of estuarine areas. It 

 is a major coastal State, and it has tremendous pollution in some of its 

 major estuarine areas, such as the Earitan and Newark Bay area. 



Recently in New Jersey, there has been tremendous public interest 

 with regard to these estuarine areas. That interest has been stimulated 

 by progressive State officials. It has been stimulated by private in- 

 dustry, private interests, and the conservation gTOups. 



What is happening ? Proposals came forward to the legislature re- 

 jecting the opportunity to institute a statewide estuarine planning pro- 

 gram. The legislature was unable to do this, and I submit it was pri- 

 marily because of political reasons, the legislators giving great talks 

 with regard to how important this was for the northern part of the 

 State when they came from the southern part of the State, and what a 

 great Utopia on overall plan would be for a particular part of the 

 State. 



On the other hand, we had two departments competing for the 

 interest in the estuarine, those dejDartments being the Department of 

 Conservation and Economic Development and a new department that 

 was created in New Jersey, the Department of Community Affairs, 

 both two completely different missions. 



So what happened ? An area of 18,000 acres out of the 350,000— and 

 perhaps that is not a bad compromise — was put up and I say was sacri- 

 ficed. That 18,000 acres sit in the Hackensack Valley meadowland 

 area, a tremendous estuarine area. 



It was stripped away, virtually stripped away, from the Department 

 of Conservation and Economic "Development and put in the Depart- 

 ment of Community Affairs under a new State agency which was going 

 to take over all of the planning and all of the development in this 

 particular area. 



A new city was going to be created in New Jersey. It was going to 



