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Since a most important part of this profile is to be an expression of 

 the States' views on the composition and management of a compre- 

 hensive national program for estuarine resources, special attention 

 was directed to this area. The individual State's views with respect 

 to responsibilities of Federal, State, and local governments on this 

 program were very diligently sought, not only through the mechanism 

 mentioned above but also by direct correspondence to the States asking 

 specifically for the official State's views. To assure in every way 

 possible that the States had adequate opportunities to express their 

 views, the preliminary recommendations for the comprehensive man- 

 agement plan, including a summary of the available States' views were 

 sent to the States for review and then the States were asked to attend 

 Regional/State review conferences held in various sections of the 

 country. The responses varied widely. Because of the emphasis on 

 this topic, in accordance with section 5g of the act, these views are 

 presented separately, in section 6 of this chapter. 



The following table V.2.1 presents a brief summary of information 

 received from and about the coastal States in the area of estuarine 

 management information. 



TABLE V.Z.I.— ESTUARINE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM COASTAL STATES 



Coastal States and territories 



Profile 

 material 



State 

 reps. 



Letters ' 



Gov. 

 letters 



Other 



Reports Other ^ 



Alabama X 



Alaska X 



California X 



Connecticut X 



Delaware X 



Florida.... X 



Georgia X 



Hawaii X 



Louisiana X 



Maine X 



Maryland X 



Massachusetts X 



Mississippi X 



New Hampshire X 



New Jersey X 



New York X 



North Carolina X 



Oregon X 



Pennsylvania X 



Rhode Island X 



South Carolina X 



Texas X 



Virginia X 



Washington X 



Virgin Islands X 



District of Columbia X 



Puerto Rico X 



1 Views regarding Federal-State-local responsibilities in estuarine management. 



2 Including contracts. 



Section 2. Selected State Organizations- 

 Development 



A Spectrum of 



The 24 Coastal States have, in essence, 24 different estuarine man- 

 agement frameworks ; viewed together they present a broad spectrum 

 of development towards effective and efficient estuarine management. 



