Figure 6. Artist's conception of an offshore loading terminal. Such bold new actions may 

 relieve existing ports of conflicting pressures and expensive port redevelopment. 



not only inevitable but desirable. A complex 

 computer simulation model may be developed for 

 one estuary, but once developed may have more 

 general applicability. Laws governing turbulent 

 diffusion processes are similar, although their 

 appUcation may vary considerably from case to 

 case. 



The National Sea-Grant College and Program 

 Act of 1966^' provides a mechanism for support- 

 ing the complex of coastal zone laboratories 

 envisioned. First, the problems are not in the 

 natural sciences alone but in the social sciences as 

 well. Second, many of the problems are "appUed" 

 and are in urgent need of a solution. Third, the 

 State has an important interest in the solution of 

 these problems and the training of its people and 

 should be expected to share in the program. These 

 coastal zone laboratories should provide the 

 studies and research on which the State may base 

 its management decisions. 



^'P.L. 89-688, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 998 33 U.S.C. 

 1121-1124. 



The coastal zone laboratories should be oper- 

 ated under the Sea-Grant College Program, which 

 would provide the necessary resources and exper- 

 tise that the States do not now have. Although the 

 relationship of State goverrmient to local universi- 

 ties differs from State to State, it is usually closer 

 than that between the State government and 

 Federal laboratories. The relationship between a 

 university laboratory and State goverrunent will 

 not and should not be identical with that between 

 a Federal agency and its research laboratories. The 

 States will have to maintain their own manage- 

 ment and enforcement system and in some cases 

 their own estuarine environmental monitoring 

 system. 



The resources of the university-coastal zone 

 laboratories wUl be available for research, special 

 studies, and assistance just as are those of the 

 agricultural experiment stations and the extension 

 services operated by land-grant colleges. Accord- 

 ingly we recommend that Sea Grant funding for 

 coastal zone research be increased over the next 10 

 years to provide, in addition to other Sea Grant 



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