446 



TABLE V.5.3f.— SUMMARY OF PREVAILING TONE OF RESPONSES PER TYPE OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE GROUP AND PER 



CATEGORY 



Distribution of responses among groups- 



Subject category 



Question No. 6: What type of organization is needed 



to best protect, control, and manage the estuaries? 

 Cooperative Federal, State, and local government 



organization, possibly under a superagency 



State control only _ 



A type that will promote industry cooperation 



Present organization works well, but could use more 



power, especially for enforcement- 



Joint State-local organization, with nongovernment 



representation as appropriate 



State and/or Federal organization 



Cooperative Federal, State, and local, with non- 

 . government representation, including those not 



involved or affected _ 



Local management organization 



A single coordinating agency. ._ 



Joint Federal-State organization 



Regional organization, with Federal representation. 

 New State research and development agency 



SUMMARIZATION OF VIEWS AND ANSWERS IN TABLE V.5.3g 



Table V.5.3g demonstrates the concensus to have been that the States 

 should play a more active role in estuarine management and pollution 

 control than they now do (14 specifically, but implied in most of the 

 answers) . 



Generally, the local responsibility was seen to be in sharing the 

 management functions with the States (102), or in planning and 

 effecting waste treatment and monitoring systems (11). Several said 

 that the localities should have the primary managment responsibility 

 (51). 



State management through a number of instrumentalities was rec- 

 ommended ( 107) . It was also proposed that the State management pro- 

 gram be carried out within a national plan, and that the States and 

 localities provide input to assist in developing and, as needed, revising 

 the national plan ( 65 ) . 



