CHAPTER 9. SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR A STATE 

 MANAGEMENT STATUTE 



Numerous representatives of the coastal States have expressed, 

 through the public meetings, through State profile presentations, and 

 through direct correspondence with the National Estuarine Pollution 

 Study staff a need for suggestions from the Federal Government as to 

 how the States can develop improved or strengthened provisions for 

 the use control of their estuarine resources. Details on these sugges- 

 tions are included in the preceding chapters 2 and 5. 



Consequently, the National Estuarine Pollution Study made an 

 initial attempt to develop such guidelines through a contract awarded 

 to the University of Maryland School of Law. The result of this con- 

 tract was the development of a model statute for Chesapeake Bay Basin 

 management based upon the existing condition in the adjacent Chesa- 

 peake Bay. This specific geographic area was selected as the basis for 

 the development of the guidelines because of its wide range of gov- 

 ernmental relationships, characteristics, benefits, potentials, and use 

 conflicts which exist not only in the basin area but also in other major 

 estuarine areas. Therefore, this suggested statute, presented in the 

 following pages of this chapter, is considered to meet many of these 

 problems and to include many of the basic principles which would 

 be applicable to other estuarine areas of the United States ; also it is 

 included because it is an excellent piece of work. It is of course not 

 presented as this study's recommendation for any action by the State 

 of Maryland, or any other coastal State. 



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