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management programs to implement State-approved 

 management plans. 



[6] Waste collection and treatment facilities. 



[7] Support of estuarine and coastal zone laboratories. 



(b) Cooperative activities to prepare estuarine and coastal 

 management plans initiated either by the States or by a Fed- 

 eral agency pursuant to established authority. 



(c) Technical advice and assistance. 



(d) Provision of services such as navigation channels; 

 flood control and protective works, beach restoration, aids to 

 navigation, and environmental prediction, including weather, 

 tides, etc. 



(e) Promotion of, and guidance and support to, coopera- 

 tion among the States in managing interstate estuaries. 



(f) Recommendations and advice to the States and inter- 

 state agencies concerning their estuarine and coastal zones 

 management policies. 



(g) Provision of information and education to the public 

 concerning estuarine and coastal resources, programs, and 

 problems. 



(3) Complete and maintain the broad national inventory of the 

 estuaries and coastal areas and their resources initiated by the 

 National Estuarine Pollution Study and the Inventory directed 

 by the National Estuary Protection Act (Public Law 90-454). 



(4) Continue broad estuarine and coastal studies not of a local 

 nature. Examples are the National Estuarine Pollution Study by 

 the Department of the Interior; the same agency's study under 

 the National Estuary Protection Act of the feasibility and de- 

 sirability of establishing a nationwide system of estuarine pre- 

 serves; the comprehensive study by the Corps of Engineers of 

 Chesapeake Bay, authorized in 1965 ; and the survey, authorized in 

 1968, by the Corps of national shoreline erosion problems. 



Additional broad scientific studies in hydrology, living re- 

 sources, and ecology are needed ; and, in particular, a study of the 

 means of establishnig values associated with the various uses of 

 the estuarine and coastal zones. 



(5) Participate in local and regional studies where appropriate 

 to assist local and regional management. 



(6) Assure appropriate Federal performance under regional 

 and international obligations for the management of flyways, 

 fishei^ies resources, etc. 



(7) Exercise regulatory authority, presently assigned and pro- 

 posed in S. 7 and H.R. 4148 (if enacted), in the following areas: 



(a) Enforcement of water quality standards, as necessary, 

 and various other controls over pollution including : 



[1] Oil, thermal, and radioactive pollution ; 

 [2] Disposal of vessel wastes ; 



[3] Disposal of solid wastes and other refuse, dredged 

 fill, et cetera, in navigable waters ; 



[4] Treatment of wastes at Federal installations. 



(b) Issuance of permits, licenses, or other controls govern- 

 ing certain permissible uses or modification of estuarine and 

 coastal resources including : 



