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and designated selected estuarine register areas (SERA) (table 

 VI.1.3). With this designation went first priority for data collection. 

 Information on these areas represents the most complete sections of 

 the inventory. 



Table VI. 1.2 — Prime Data Sources — National Estuarine Inventory 



Inventory section and prime source 



Identification — Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. 



2. Area description^ — Bureau of Sport Msheries and Wildlife, U.S. Army Corps 

 of Engineers, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. 



3. Managing entities — Bureau of the Budget, Department of Housing and 

 Urban Development, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. 



4. Hydrology — U.S. Geological Survey. 



5. Stage of development — Office of Business Economics. 



6. Physical oceanography — U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



7. Water quality — Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, the States. 



8. Sediments and sedimentation— U.S. Geological Survey. 



9. Uses — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Na- 

 tional Park Service, Department of Defense, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of 

 Mines. 



10. Sources of pollution — Federal Water Pollution Control Adimdnistration, the 

 States. 



11. Use damages — Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Public Health Service. 



12. Immediate pollution control needs — Federal Water Pollution Control 

 Adminisitration. 



13. Water quality standards — Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. 



14. Past and current studies — Federal Water Pollution Control Administra- 

 tion, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the States. 



Table VI.1.3 — Selected Estuarine Register Areas (SERA) By Biophysical 



Region 



North Atlantic : Mobdle Bay 



Penobscot Bay BUoxi Bay 



Merrimack River-Iijsvpich Bay Mississippi Delta 



Broad Sound (Boston Harbor) Barataria Bay 



Narragansett Bay Atohafalaya Bay 



Middle Atlantic : Calcasieu Pass — Lake 



Connecticut River Galveston Bay 



Hudson River Corpus Christi Bay 



Raritan River Pacific Southwest : 



Delaware Bay San Francisco Coastal 



Pamlico Sound Morro Bay 



Chesapeake Bay : Newport Bay 



James River San Diego Bay 



Potomac River Pacific Northwest : 



Patapsoo River (Baltimore Harbor) Humboldt Bay 



Patuxent River Coos Bay 



Ghoptank River Yaquina Bay 



Nanticoke River Tillamook Bay 



Wicomico River Columbia River 



South Atlantic : Willapa Bay 



Charleston, S.C. Coastal Grays Harbor 



Savannah Estuary Bellingham-Anacortes 



St. John's River Hood Canal 



Caribbean : Biscayne Bay Coastal Elliott Bay ( Seattle Harbor) 

 Pacific Islands : Kaneohe Bay Alaska : 



Gulf of Mexico : Gastineau Channel ( Juneau ) 



Tampa Bay Cook Inlet 



Apalachicola Bay 



