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3. Determine the costs of in-place pollution abatement facilities. 



4. Evaluate the effectiveness of the various pollution abatement 

 strategies and formulate optimum beneficial national and State 

 controlled programs. 



5. Determine the importance of water quality and quantity and 

 pollution control requirements on categories of users. 



6. Delineate suitable economic planing units. 

 C. Law: 



1. Define legal jurisdictions for management purposes. 



2. Define the rights and responsibilities of parties competing 

 for estuarine resources. 



3. Study State, Federal, and local government law and policies 

 as they pertain to estuarine ownership, planning, zoning; and 

 land and water use. 



4. Develop model legislation for estuarine development, study, 

 use, and preservation. 



5. Determine the legal aspects of offshore dumping and out- 

 falls as well as of offshore fishing, oil development, mining, and 

 other resource exploitation. 



Section 9. Ancillary Research and Study Needs 



There is a considerable need for knowledge which, while not in 

 direct support of a system of teclinical estuarine management, is a 

 significant part of the overall research and study program needed. 

 These might be considered as needs of researchers and include environ- 

 mental monitoring and surveillance, methodology (both laboratory 

 and field) , data processing, training, and estuarine zone laJboratories. 



MONITORING 



There is a well recognized need for routinely monitoring the estua- 

 rine environment to complete and maintain the data base discussed 

 earlier. A continuing program of environmental surveillance supplies 

 the information needed to determine water quality conditions and the 

 effectiveness of water pollution control activities. Surveillance also 

 indicates the location, nature, and severity of pollution problems and 

 is necessary to support legal and administrative actions to abate pollu- 

 tion and other destruction of the estuarine resource. All of the values 

 of an adequate data base for planning and managing the estuarine 

 resource also accrue to an effective system of monitoring. Effective 

 monitoring of marine and estuarine waters requires a continuing series 

 of synoptic measurements at strategic locations. It will require an 

 approach based upon adequate knowledge of the ecology involved and 

 an understanding of the related physical, chemical, and geological 

 processes. 



Instrumentation 



Field investigation and research in estuarine and near shore Lreas 

 is extremely expensive in terms of manpower, time, and equipment 

 commitments, thus, research to advance the state-of-the-art of surveil- 

 lance and monitoring is necessary in order that information essential 



