PUBLIC LAW 102-567—OCT. 29, 1992 106 STAT. 4297 Administrator and the Under Secretary listing areas suitable for intensive monitoring.
- (D) The Administrator and the Under Secretary, in Massachusetts.
conjunction with other Federal, State, and local authorities, ^^^'^^• shall develop and implement multi-year programs of intensive monitoring tor Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays, the Gulf of Maine, the Chesapeake Bay, the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, and each area jointly designated by the Administrator and the Under Secretary pursuant to paragraph (2). "(4) INTENSIVE COASTAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING PRO- GRAMS.—Each intensive coastal water q[uality monitoring program developed pursuant to this subsection shall—
- (A) identify water quality conditions and problems
and provide information to assist in improving coastal water quality; "(B) clearly state the goals and objectives of the monitoring program and their relationship to the water quality objectives for coastal waters covered by the program; "(C) identify the water quality and biological parameters of the monitoring program and their relationship to these goals and objectives; "(D) describe the types of monitoring networks, surveys and other activities to be used to achieve these goals and objectives, using where appropriate the guidelines issued under subsection (c); "(E) survey existing Federal, State, and local coastal monitoring activities and private compliance monitoring activities in or on the coastal waters covered by the program, describe the relationship of the program to those other monitoring activities, and integrate them, as appropriate, into the intensive monitoring program; "(F) describe the data management and quality control components of the program; "(G) specify the implementation requirements for the program, including— "(i) the lead Federal, State, or regional authority that will administer the program; "(ii) the public and private parties that will implement the program; "(iii) a detailed schedule for program implementation; "(iv) all Federal and State responsibilities for implementing the program; and "(v) the changes in Federal, State, and local monitoring programs necessary to implement the program; "(H) estimate the costs to Federal and State governments, and other participants, of implementing the monitoring program; and "(I) describe the methods to assess periodically the success of the monitoring program in meeting its goals and objectives, and the manner in which the program may be mooified from time-to-time. "(5) CRITERIA FOR MONITORING MASSACHUSETTS AND CAPE COD BAYS.—In addition to the criteria listed in paragraph (4), the intensive monitoring program for Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays shall establish baseline data on environmental phenomena (such as quantity of bacteria and quality of indige-
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