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The highly compressed tabular data presented throughout this re- 

 port consists of national ad regional summaries of information stored 

 in the inventory on a local geographic basis. A continuing estuarine 

 management information system can provide a local, State, regional, 

 and national management similar current information upon which to 

 base a program for the preservation, use, study, and development of 

 the estuarine zone of the United States. 



REFEEENCES 



IV-1-1— Wastler, T. A., and L. C. de Guerrero, National Estuarine Inventory 

 Handbook of Descriptors. Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of the Interior, 

 Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, Revised, September 1968. p. 77. 



