PART VII. COLLECTION OF SUPPORTING INFORMATION 



Introduction 



The preceding parts of this report represent in relatively brief form 

 the efforts of the National Estuarine Pollution Study, acting on behalf 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, to "assemble, coordinate, and organize 

 all existing [available] pertinent information on the Nation's estauries 

 and estuarine zones . . ." as dictated by Sec. 5g of the Clean Water 

 Restoration Act of 1966, 



The source information was obtained from many different sources, 

 constitutes a tremendously large mass of materials, and includes 

 published and unpublished material in the technical and scientific 

 literature. The quantitative data in the sources was abstracted and 

 consolidated in the form of the National Estuarine Inventory, 

 described in part VI. 



In general the sources can be grouped into four categories — tran- 

 scripts of estuarine study public meetings, Federal and State profiles, 

 estuarine study contractors' report, and the reference collection. The 

 sources are described, herein, only in general terms because of the al- 

 ready voluminous nature of this report. The preceding parts contain 

 references only to those documents which constitute an integral part 

 of the text. A list of all the documents would unduly burden the re- 

 port and the reader. 



Transcripts or Public Meetings 



During 1968 and 1969, the National Estuarine Pollution Study 

 conducted 30 public meetings across the Nation to provide a forum of 

 contacting and receiving the views from the public and private sectors 

 and also from individuals not already contacted and wishing to present 

 their views on the current situation in the estuarine zone. The actual 

 proceedings of these meetings were recorded and most of the tran- 

 scripts have already been assembled into individual volumes for use 

 in preparing this report and also for future reference. The assembly 

 has been handled by the Study's regional representatives. Since the 

 transcripts represent the actual statements by the attendees, selective 

 distribution has been made to those people involved or interested in 

 the conduct of the study. A limited number of additional copies are 

 being retained for future reference. Volumewise the transcripts 

 amount to several thousand pages of copy. These transcripts are re- 

 ferred to as Transcripts of the Estuarine Study Public Meetings in 

 the place where they were held. A list of the meeting sites, dates of 

 occurrence, and analysis of them are included in chapter 5 of part V. 

 A few of the transcripts has been summarized in the form of brief 

 brochures covering the highlights of the particular meetings. A limited 

 number of these brochures are retained for reference. 



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