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serve and protect the environmental quality of the 
Great Lakes; 
“(2) to identify the needs and priorities for such 
research as will be required in the future to preserve 
and protect the environmental quality of the Great 
Lakes; 
“(3) to assure a comprehensive and balanced ap- 
proach to federally supported research on the Great 
Lakes; 
““(4) to encourage the utilization of the results and 
findings of research relating to the Great Lakes in the 
decisionmaking processes which affect the environmen- 
tal quality of the Great Lakes; and 
“(5) to foster public understanding, and to assure 
greater understanding at all levels of government, of 
the role of the Great Lakes as a unique national re- 
source and the greatest ecological entity of its kind. 
“(c) DECLARATION OF PoLicy.—The Congress, in rec- 
ognizing the Great Lakes to be a unique national and inter- 
national resource, declares that— 
“(1) it shall be the continuing policy of the Feder- 
al Government, in cooperation with State and local 
governments and other concerned public and private 
organizations, to use all practicable means and meas- 
ures in a manner calculated to enhance, preserve, and 
