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and protection of the coastal waters themselves. It is further the com- 

 mittee's intent that the legislation should not in any way inhibit a 

 coastal State in its desire to combine the management and control of 

 inland areas with the management and control of those areas within 

 the coastal zone if such a combination is considered appropriate. 

 Nevertheless, in the case of such an election on the part of a state, 

 this legislation would not provide Federal assistance funds for the 

 implementation of that part of the program related to lands beyond 

 the limits of the coastal zone. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the 

 provisions of this title would be compatible with the provisions of any 

 future overall national land use policy. Indeed, the management pro- 

 grams developed under this title could well serve as prototypes for 

 management programs related to overall land use, at least to the ex- 

 tent that the problems to be solved are similar. In any case, since un- 

 der both this title and the various proposals for national land use 

 policy, the regulation of uses of non-Federal lands is a matter for the 

 States, there is no impediment created under this title to the abilities 

 of the various States to integrate their coastal zone and inland land 

 management programs. As stated above, the solution of problems 

 faced by the State in the development of a coastal zone m.anagement 

 program will materially assist in the subsequent development of an 

 overall land use program. 



(b) "Coastal waters" is defined as meaning (1) in the Great Lakes 

 area, the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States 

 consisting of the lakes themselves, their connecting waters, their har- 

 bors and roadsteads, and estuary-type areas such as bays, shallows, and 

 marshes along the lake shore lines and (2) in other areas, bordering on 

 the oceans, seas, gulf, and sounds, those waters adjacent to the coast 

 line, which contain a measurable quantity or percentage of sea water. 

 The bodies containing salt or brackish water include but are not neces- 

 sarily limited to sounds, bays (either natural or artificial), lagoons, 

 bayous, ponds, and estuaries. 



(c) "Coastal state" is defined as meaning a State of the United States 

 located in, or bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic Ocean, the 

 Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes. 

 For the purposes of the title, the term includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin 

 Islands, Guam and American Samoa. 



(d) "Estuary" is defined as meaning that part of a river or stream 

 or other body of water along the coastline having an unimpaired con- 

 nection with the open sea, in which the sea water is measurably diluted 

 with fresh water drained from the land. Through this definition, your 

 committee intends to make it clear that the inland reach of any estuary 

 can go no further than the line where the ocean tide actually intrudes. 

 In other words, it does not extend all the way to the line of tidal in- 

 fluence but only to the line of tidal action. The term includes areas of a 

 similar type on the Great Lakes such as bays, shallows, and marshes 

 along tlie lake borders. 



(e) "Estuarine sanctuary" is defined as meaning a research area set 

 aside to provide an opportunity for scientists and students to examine 

 over a period of time the ecological relationships within the area and 

 the impact of drainage intrusions into the area. The research area may 

 include a part of an estuary or the entire estuary and also may encom- 

 pass transitional areas and adjacent uplands where desirable to create 

 one single natural unit. 



