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operating in the field, laboartory, and hearing room as a coordinated, 

 coherent, and cogent unit. The traditional academic, departmental 

 organization will not provide what is needed by the coastal zone man- 

 agement agency. However, as indicated elsewhere, academic scientists 

 and engineers can and should provide valuable assistance through the 

 various arrangements available and new mechanisms can be developed. 



I must hasten to add that I do not necessarily advocate 33 or more 

 complete, full-scale, coastal zone laboratories or institutes with all the 

 capabilities indicated. Some coastal zone management organizations 

 could use scientific research and service units with lesser capabilities, 

 rely on hired consultants, or even band with their neighbors to supf)ort 

 and use a joint coastal zone institute. But ready scientific and technical 

 services are absoluteh- necessary to the effective functioning of any 

 coastal zone management unit. ( On the contrary side, lest we conclude 

 that small research units will be all that are needed, it should be noted 

 that there are a large number of scientists within the three member 

 agencies of the Chesapeake Eesearch Council and many of the manage- 

 ment units have some technical capability of their own ; they are still 

 not sufficient to meet Maryland's and Virginia's separate or even joint 

 needs.) 



Any Federal laboratorj^ complex (and many arrangements are pos- 

 sible within the existing facilities and framework) or other regional 

 coastal zone laboratories or institutes that exist or are developed 

 should and can be "waffled into the system" but the bulk of the manage- 

 ment support work will have to be done at the level of the individual 

 coastal zone management unit. 



Financial support for the local coastal zone institute or laboratory 

 should be supplied from several sources. The States, themselves, must 

 make a firm and continuing financial commitment (s) to their local, 

 State or interstate coastal zone management unit(s) and the attendant 

 "coastal zone institute (s) ." Other support on matching and nonmatch- 

 ing basis can be supplied from traditional and even new Federal 

 sources. Private foundation support can also be utilized. 



Among the Federal financing possibilities are : 



1. The lead agency for the national coastal zone management 

 system (whichever it may be, existing or new) must be able to 

 support both the management units and the "institutes or 

 laboratories." 



2. The various granting and contracting agencies within the 

 Department of the Interior, which already have strong legal 

 interest and commitments in the coastal zone, i.e.. Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries, Federal Water Pollution Control Admin- 

 istration, Office of Water Resources Research, Bureau of Sport 

 Fisheries and Wildlife and others, should be included. The new 

 Office of Marine Resources might also be utilized since the entire 

 array of resources and resource problems would be involved. 



3. The Office of Sea Grant Programs, which has a strong 

 "applied" bent and considerable interest in coastal zone problems, 

 is another important funding source to be fostered and used. 



4. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its associated prob- 

 lem-oriented units must be utilized. 



5. Department of Commerce units, namely ESSA, also must 

 be involved. 



