b. State gp-encies . In Massachusetts, the Governor has 

 expressed approval of the plan for the Departments of Coranerce, 

 Public Vforlcs, Public Health, and i'latural Resources and urged more 

 detailed studies of possible effects of the project on pollution 

 and fisheries (see Appendix G)r In Rhode Island, close coqrdina- 

 tion was maintained Trjith the Departments of Public V/orks, Kgalth* 

 and Ar^riculture and Conservation as 1-7611 as the Rhode Island 

 Development Council. Officials have aprroved the plan subject to 

 further studies of the effect of the Lo^/^rer Bay barriers on fisheries 

 axid natural conditions. The Department of Health has stated that 

 the Lower Bay p].an would mpke pollution control more difficult 



and xirged consideration of barriers that would not produce a 

 significant change in the tidal prism. The Narragansett l-iarine 

 Laboratory of the University of Rhode Island i-ias of particular 

 assistance in collecting existing data, makinpj new surveys of the 

 hydrosraphy and oceanography of Narragansett Bay, end carrying 

 out analytical studies of the physical variables in the bay. The 

 Governor of Rhode Island's Hurricane Survey Advisory Comxnittee, 

 composed of representatives of Khode Island coniriunities throughout 

 the iMarragansett .Ba;/- area, assisted and ad^ased the Corps of Engi- 

 neers of local views and desires. It endorsed the tvro-imit plan 

 of protection but requested additional studies of the effects of 

 the Lo^rer Bay barriers on fish and wildlife, pollution and naviga- 

 tion. 



c. Local apencies . The Hurricane Protection Committee of 

 the Mayor of Providence vias of great assistance in studies of 

 •proposals for the protection of Providence a<^ainst hurricrne 

 floodinf:. The Narragansett Electric Company, a public utility 

 >ri.tb two steam-electric grneratihg plants alon.q; the Providence 

 River in Pro\d.dence, cooper?ted closely in studies of the Fox 

 Point Barrier. Comments were obtained from the American Merchant 

 Marine Institute and the Rhode Island Pilots Association, two 

 orgamizations concerned with the effects of the plan on 

 navigation. 



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