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land- water use, eminent domain and revenue-raising power, and 

 so forth. 



(10) Development of public education, information programs, 

 including cooperative efforts with private groups in order to en- 

 courage local initiative and support for balanced use of estuarine 

 and coastal zones. 



(11) Development of local professional and technical training 

 programs for employees of Governmental agencies and private 

 industry to foster understanding of and capability to resolve 

 problems and carry out functions related to the estuarine and 

 coastal management program. 



The Responsibilities of Public and Private Interests 



If the Nation is to achieve a sound balance between the develop- 

 ment of its estuarine and coastal resources for all beneficial purposes 

 and their conservation and preservation for future use, it is essential 

 that public and private interests in the nongovernmental sector of our 

 society meet their responsibilities for achieving that goal. It 'is also 

 essential that the public and private interests have an opportunity to 

 exercise their responsibilities against the backdrop of an announced 

 national policy and in terms of announced plans for estuarine and 

 coastal zone management toward which they have made a constructive 

 contribution. 



Many of this Nation's estuarine and coastal resources continue to be 

 endangered because of a failure to achieve in governmental programs 

 a proper balance between the development of these resources for all 

 beneficial purposes and their preservation and conservation. The re- 

 sponsibility for this dire condition ultimately rests with the public and 

 private forces within American society that thus far have controlled 

 the use and management of these resources. 



This means too that the reversal of shortsighted policies now in 

 force will not occur until there emerge within our society new concep- 

 tions of what constitute the real public and private interest in the use 

 of these resources. Only as these expressions of desirable new goals 

 and values evolve, and receive strong and effective articulation by 

 public and private interests within the nongovernmental sector, will 

 our management of estuarine and coastal resources, both in the private 

 sector and by governments responding to social and political pressure, 

 be redirected toward sounder use and management objectives. 



responsibilities of public interests 



From public interests — citizen groups, conservation organizations, 

 professional societies, the Nation's educational institutions, and 

 others — ^there is need for continuing action in three broad areas. The 

 first is educational activitjr which is the prerequisite to the successful 

 reversal of present shortsighted estuarine and coastal management 

 policies ; and, further, through active and vigorous participation in the 

 political and governmental processes, to work for the implementation 

 of sound estuarine and coastal zone programs at all levels of govern- 

 ment and in the private sector. 



A second broad area of responsibility is the support of research 

 programs of governmental bodies through nongovernmental studies 



