The Restoration and Protection Plan that was issued last 
Friday with a lot of hoopla and excitement has been criticized 
both internally and externally and has also been applauded and 
probably for very different reasons. 
It's been criticized because it didn't go far enough and 
because some of the statements in there were a little bit 
tenuous in terms of science. I agree that they were and are. 
It's been applauded, and I think rightfully so, because it 
makes a major milestone in institutional cooperation, a regional 
cooperation that has for the first time, I think, looked at the 
Bay as a whole from the standpoint of the agencies who impact it 
and can institutionally have an impact on changing the way 
things happen in the Bay if there is a will to do that. 
So we have in one book for the next year the activities 
which will be undertaken by three states, the District of Colum¬ 
bia, and six Federal agencies to work on the Bay. It doesn't 
mean that they're all coordinated necessarily or neatly pack¬ 
aged. But they are there, and there is a will to do it and a 
will to work. 
The other component in terms of today's discussion, which I 
think would be helpful for you to help us with as scientists, is 
two other major areas that we didn't spend much time on. And 
let me go back to the first discussion that we had this morning 
from Senator Mathias where he spoke a lot about the political 
side of what we're doing and how he had managed to pull together 
a number of agencies and get money for the study and also the re¬ 
cognition up to the national level to the Office of the Presi¬ 
dent of the United States. 
So I think that is one area that needs to be recognized. 
That unless w * get that kind of recognition and that kind of 
support, then we can do all the talking we want in forums like 
this and we will be talking to ourselves in terms of implement¬ 
ing a solution. 
So first is the institutional mechanism and institutional 
will. And that has been put together into the Executive Council 
of the Chesapeake Bay Program. The second component of it is 
public information, public participation, because that in es¬ 
sence takes the concern which you have expressed today, trans¬ 
lates that into a political support which has been recognized by 
the Congress and also recognized by the President. 
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